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powerful African American writer in America today. Her works are intense, deep, filled with insight, and works that truly insist the reader think about history and different legacies of the
culture. The following paper examines her life and works. Toni Morrison: Life and Works Toni Morrison was born with the name Chloe Anthony Wofford (Nobelprize.org). She was born
in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, "the second of four children in a black working-class family" (Nobelprize.org). She apparently demonstrated a love and interest of literature at a very early age
and went on to study humanities at Cornell and Howard Universities (Nobelprize.org). She then went on to continue her education at "Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989,
a chair at Princeton University" (Nobelprize.org). In addition to her education she worked in the position of editor at Random House for
awhile and also acted as a critic, a speaker of lectures concerning African American literature and, of course, an author (Nobelprize.org). Her first novel was in 1970 and she quickly
gained much positive attention from the public, as well as attention from critics (Nobelprize.org). Her novels are well known for their "epic power, unerring ear for dialogue, and...poetically-charged and richly-expressive
depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies of displacement and slavery that have been bequeathed to the African-American community" (African
American Literature Book Club). Many wonder why she only writes about blacks, and why whites are so marginalized, but that is really what makes her work incredible and relevant and
powerful. She notes, in response to these criticisms that, "I was interested in another kind of literature that was not just confrontational, black versus white. I was really interested in
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