Morrison's Writing Desk

About

Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. Father George was a shipyard welder who worked three jobs. Mother Ramah sang in the church choir and told stories. I was the first woman in my family to go to college. I became an editor at Random House where I published Black writers nobody else would touch -- Toni Cade Bambara, Gayl Jones, Angela Davis. Then I wrote my own. The Bluest Eye. Sula. Song of Solomon. Beloved -- the story of a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed to save from slavery. I won the Pulitzer. Then the Nobel. I was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. I wrote sentences that changed the temperature in the room. 'Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.' I wrote the books that didn't exist for me when I was growing up. That's all.

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