Toni Morrison

Born: Feb. 18, 1931 in Ohio

Died: 2019 🙁

Pulitzer & Nobel Prize-winning writer.

Wasn’t aware of country’s racial division growing up in integrated neighborhood.

As a writer, she’s best known for her deep look into the “black experience” and more specifically that of black women.

Her book Beloved, about an African American slave during the Civil War, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Her controversial book Song of Solomon was banned in a number of schools; its content made some uneasy.

Wrote children’s books with her son Slade.

Said: “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”