Ms. Toni Morrison will go down in history as one of the most intentional, revolutionary thought leaders of the 20th century who created a blueprint for all writers forevermore. Rest in peace 💖
died on Monday at the age of 88, as confirmed by her publisher Knopf. She leaves behind a son, Harold Ford Morrison.
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in February 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, the writer was the second of four children to a homemaker and shipyard welder. Growing up during the tails of the Great Depression — in a segregated midwest — Morrison's childhood informed her outlook on the world that would eventually influence her writing.
“Every book I read about young Black girls — they were props... jokes,” said Morrison in her 2019 documentary,Howard University for her undergraduate degree in English , where she became active with Howard University Players, the school’s theatrical group, which was taught by famous Harlem Renaissance figure and iconic author Alain Locke. After, she got her master's degree from Cornell University and began teaching. She met her husband Harold Morrison, an architect, when she went back to Howard to teach., as she worked as an editor for Random House, where she became their first Black woman senior editor.
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