Toni Morrison

Education

B.A. in English, minor in Classics, Howard University, 1953

M.F.A. in English, Cornell University, 1955

Toni Morrison has published six novels (among them Beloved, for which she won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction), a play, and a critical study on the role of race in the reader/writer relationship. She has taught at several colleges and universities and worked for 15 years as senior editor at Random House in New York City.