Toni Morrison Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

1988 – American Book Award 1988 – Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1988 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 – Frederic G. Melcher Book Award 1987-88 – Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 1989 – MLA Commonwealth Award for literature 1993 – Nobel Prize for Literature 1994 – Condorcet Medal 1994 – Pearl Buck Award 1994 – Rhegium Julii Prize for Literature 1996 – National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters 2000 – National Humanities Medal 2009 – Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2012 – Presidential Medal of Freedom 2012 – Presidential Medal of Freedom

Toni Morrison, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, is a novelist and professor who has won several prestigious awards for her literary works. As the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize among many other awards, she is one of the most brilliant authors in the genre of African American literature. The seeds for her future profession were sown by her father who told her stories and fables of the African culture which influenced her writings.

Primarily a professor by profession, she began writing as a part of an informal group of writers and poets, and published her first novel The Bluest Eye. The critical reviews she got for her debut motivated her to write more. She developed a style of writing that is characterized by epic themes, descriptive dialogues and rich depictions of Black American culture. She went on to write several other novels that were critically appreciated and won her numerous awards.

Her novel, Song of Solomon was the first novel by a black writer to be chosen the main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in almost four decades. She was already famous by the time the novel Beloved was published but this book took her popularity to greater heights. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was later made into a film of the same name.