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Toni Morrison, originally born Chloe Anthony Wofford, was an eminent American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Born and brought up in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University, America’s most distinguished black university in Washington. She returned to this university later on to teach after completing a Master’s degree at Cornell University. Most of her early life was spent in academia and in an educational environment and she only published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, at the age of thirty. The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1993, Ms. Morrison was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s books and essay collections. Among them were celebrated works like “Song of Solomon,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and “Beloved,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.