Today our featured guest in celebration of Black History Month is Toni Morrison. Morrison was born in small town Ohio on February 18, 1931 during the Great Depression. Morrison attended Howard University where she earned her undergraduate degree in English with a minor in the classics. After two years, Morrison earned her Masters degree in English from Cornell University and taught for two years at Southern Texas University. In 1957, Morrison joined a writers group when she began teaching at Howard University. Morrison went on to write Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988. Morrison is recognized as a distinguished African American author whose novels are extraordinarily detailed and feature African American characters who are central to narrating her book's themes. Morrison's other works include The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Jazz, and Love and A Mercy. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
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Marren, Susan, and Laurie DiMauro. "Morrison Toni 1931–." Contemporary Black Biography, edited by Margaret Mazurkiewicz, vol. 86, Gale, 2011, pp. 120-127. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX1908600043/GVRL?u=pl2833&sid=GVRL&xid=58bf0c03. Accessed 13 Feb. 2018.
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