Chloe Anthony Morrison Essay

Chloe Anthony Morrison was known as Toni Morrison, and was the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Chloe Anthony Wofford was born on February 18, 1931, in a small town at Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children of Ramah and George Wofford. Her parents had moved to Ohio from the South to escape racism and hoped to find a better environment to raise their kids without violence. Despite this great movement, as she grew up she began to experience racial discrimination. In the 1930s, the Great depression became overwhelming issues for the family. Toni’s father George Wofford supported his family by often working three jobs in order support his family. He was known to be the diligent and stately man who took a great deal of pride in the quality of his work. Her mother Ramah Wofford was a religious woman and she often sang in the choir. Morrison childhood played an important role in her life because it inspired her writing career. Growing up Morrison's childhood was filled with African American folklore, music, rituals, and myths which accompany her eternally. Her family was, as Morrison says, "intimate with the supernatural" ( according to http://www.math.buffalo.edu ). This quote demonstrates that Morrison family frequently used visions and

As a single mother, she did not give up on her goals, she continued to write fiction. In 1967, she was promoted to senior editor and was transferred to New York City. In 1970, she next published her first novel the Bluest Eye. The moral of the story was about a young girl who believes that the only way to be beautiful was to change her eye color. Between the year 1971 and 1972, Morrison worked as a professor of English at the State University of New York and also worked on Sula, a novel about a defiant woman and her relation to black females, which was published in