is a work of assured, immense distinction, destined to become an American classic.
Writing about the life of black slaves and ex-slaves in the era of the Civil War and early Reconstruction, and locating her story in a Border States setting—southern Ohio and northern Kentucky, along the Ohio River, near Cincinnati—Toni Morrison taps into a deep, central vein of our national experience and shame.”The Bluest Eye
, and obtained a master’s degree from Cornell University, where she wrote her senior thesis on “Virginia Woolf’s and William Faulkner’s Treatment of the Alienated.” In addition to her writing, Morrison, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, also served an editor at Random House in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, where she worked with authors such as Toni Cade Bambara, Nettie P. Jones, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali and Angela Davis. According to, “Before the late sixties, there was no real Black Studies curriculum in the academy—let alone a post-colonial-studies program or a feminist one.
Morrison was also a professor at various universities, including Princeton University, where she taught humanities and African American studies and whose library houses her papers. Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber said in a, “Toni Morrison’s brilliant vision, inspired creativity, and unique voice have reshaped American culture and the world’s literary tradition. Her magnificent works will continue to light a path forward for generations of readers and authors.
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