Biography of Toni Morrison: American writer Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) became the first black female editor in fiction in the late 1960s at Random House in NYC.
The novel won her the National Book Critics Circle Award. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1987-published novel Beloved.
Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children of Ramah and George Wofford. Morrison was born in a working-class Black family.
Toni Morrison’s parents instilled in her a sense of language and heritage through telling traditional African-American ghost stories, and folktales, and singing songs.
From 1957 to 1964 while teaching at Howard University, she met Jamaican architect Harold Morrison. They got married in 1958. In 1961, their first son Harold Ford was born.
Morrison moved with her sons as her career took her to different places. On December 22, 2010, Slade Kevin died of pancreatic cancer.
Toni Morrison played a significant role in bringing Black Literature into the mainstream. The first book she worked on was Contemporary African Literature (1972).
Morrison’s second son Slade died of pancreatic cancer in 2010 at the age of 45. During this time she was working on her novel Home, and she stopped writing for two years.