Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Today we thank her for breaking through barriers and fighting for gender equality.

Chloe Ardelia Wofford, better known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, and professor who won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

In 1960 she became the first black fiction editor at Random House in New York.

In her plays, Morrison talks about the life of the black population, especially women. She was a civil rights fighter and committed to fighting racial discrimination.