Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was an America novelist, essayist, book editor and college professor, won Pulitzer prize in 1988.she was born and raised in Ohio .She was the second of four children in a working class African American family. Her mother was from Alabama and her father was from Georgia. 

            As mention in wikipediya/Morrison Her first novel The Bluest Eye was published in 1970 and she won National Book critics Awards with “song of Solomon "which was published in 1977 that brought her in the national level writer .She was widely known after her “Beloved” published ,she won a Pulitzer prize for that. 

               Morrison was graduated from Howard University. she later taught English in the same university. She became the first black female editor in fiction in New York City .She had two children with his spouse Harold Morison . 

            Morrison was baldly shocked when she knew the two black business man were lynched near the his (her father) home, he had no courage to tell anybody though he had seen the crime. When Morrison was about two years old, her family's landlord set fire to the house in which they lived, while they were at home, because her parents could not pay the rent. 

She experienced many racial events in her life. she encounters a racially segregated restaurant and buses in Howard. She taught English in Texas Southern University for two years and then Howard University for seven years. she married with Harold Morrison in 1958 and and divorced after six years of marriage life in 1964 at that time she was pregnant with their second son. 

               Among other books Morrison developed and edited is The Black Book (1974), an anthology of photographs, illustrations, essays, and other documents of black life in the United States from the time of slavery to the 1920s. Random House had been uncertain about the project, but it received good reviews 

In 1987, Morrison published her most celebrated novel, Beloved. It was inspired by the true story of an enslaved African-American woman, Margaret Garner, whose story Morrison had discovered when compiling The Black Book. Garner had escaped slavery but was pursued by slave hunters. Facing a return to slavery, Garner killed her two-year-old daughter but was captured before she could kill herself. Morrison's novel imagines the dead baby returning as a ghost, Beloved, to haunt her mother and family. 

               Morrison was not afraid to comment on American politics and race relations., in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, After the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, Morrison wrote an essay, "Mourning for Whiteness," published in the November 21, 2016 issue of The New Yorker. 

            The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, includes writing by Morrison. Visitors can see her quote after they have walked through the section commemorating individual victims of lynching  

             Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York City, on August 5, 2019, from complications of pneumonia. She was 88 years old. Upon her death, Morrison had a net worth of 20 million dollars.