The People Of The Past
By:Faneeza Soloman
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was born February 18,1931.Her parents moved to Ohio to escape southern racism.Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio .She read a lot as a child her favorite authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. At the age of 12,she became Catholic and got the name Anthony and later got the name Toni.At her school she was the only black kid who could read.In 1949 She enrolls at Howard University, the historically black university in Washington, D.C. In 1958 Wofford marries Harold Morrison, a fellow faculty member at Howard. In 1964 She was later Divorce . Later in her life she wrote book like "The Bluest Eye", Song of Solomon" and "Beloved" . She won nearly every book prize possible. In 1957 She became a professor at Princeton University. So Also made a book called "A Mercy" its about a women both slave and mother.