How does it feel to live in America as an African-American? She narrated this in her novels...

Toni Morrison (first name Chloe Anthony Wofford) was born in Lorain County, Ohio, USA in 1931. She was the second child of an African-American family of workers. At the age of twelve, she took the name Anthony as a Catholic and began using Toni as a pseudonym. Her family helped her develop her sense of identity by telling African-American stories and listening to the tunes of this origin. Thus, after graduating from the college where she studied with the whites, in 1949 she enrolled at Howard University, which is usually attended by African Americans, and joined black intellectual societies. Her school was in Washington, and it was there that Morrison first encountered racially segregated buses and restaurants, confronting racism. Her interest in writing began when she became a member of the unofficial group of poets and writers at this university.

She graduated from the university's English department in 1953 and earned his master's degree from Cornell University in New York state in 1955. She continued her life as an English teacher and taught for two years at Texas Southern University and seven years at Howard University.

She was married to Architect Harold Morrison between 1958 and 1964. She gave birth to two children, Ford and Slade. Her successful life ended in New York in 2019 and she passed away at the age of 88.

“I did what you couldn't, couldn't, couldn't: I looked at that ugly little black girl and loved her.” The Bluest Eye, 1970.

Toni Morrison began her writing career in 1964 after her divorce from her husband. She got a job as the first black female editor at Random House, the largest British publishing house of her time.

Morrison played an important role in the media appearance and prominence of African-American Literature with his work at Random House. His first work on this subject was Contemporary African Literature, a collection of works by Nigerian and South African authors. Later, she made another work called The Black Book. In this work, she included information, photographs, and research articles from the lives of American blacks from the years of slavery to the 1970s.

She published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, at the age of 39. In this book, she told the story of a black girl who wanted blue eyes and was made to believe that she was not loved by anyone. The novel, which did not attract much attention when it was first released, later entered among the well-known works of the author.

In 1975 she wrote her second novel, she. Sula, the novel about the friendship of two black women, was nominated for the USA National Book Award. But she gained her real fame with her third novel, Song of Solomon, written in 1977. In this novel, she talked about the struggle of black people trying to cope with racism that has permeated social life and revealed the difficulties of returning to her African-American identity. Morrison won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1993 Nobel Prize for his book Song of Solomon.

“The best thing you have is yourself.” Beloved, 1987.

Morrison later published another novel, Tar Baby, about blacks' struggles for autonomy and self-actualization. Then she wrote a play called Dreaming Emmett. This play was also about the life of a black woman who was killed by white men. His novel Beloved was published in 1987. She wrote this work inspired by the life of an enslaved black woman named Margaret Garner, and the book became Morrison's most-awarded novel. For his novel Beloved, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Later, this work was transferred to the big screen.

Morrison turned Beloved into a series of three novels, together with Jazz, published in 1992, and Paradise, published in 1997, and these became the author's most impressive novels.

The author was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2012 for her achievements. Shortly before her death, a movie called “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” was shot, about her life, works, and career, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

The author continued to produce works throughout her life. She wrote 11 novels, wrote various plays, children's books, and fiction. In her works, she mostly touched on racism and its devastating consequences. As a woman, she talked about women and the relationships between them, and expressed the racism she was exposed to and saw as a black person. Thus, she became the voice of black people in the media and became a pioneer of African-American Literature with her literary works.