An American novelist and editor whose fiction, centered on Black American life and history, combines lyrical, densely allusive prose with unflinching treatment of slavery's legacy, memory and trauma. Before her own novels found wide readership, she worked for nearly two decades as a book editor at Random House, where she championed a generation of Black writers into print; her own fiction, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970, drew increasing critical recognition through the following two decades. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the first Black woman to receive it.
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AwardNobel Prize in Literature 2 Classification
Original Language Toni Morrison
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Did Toni Morrison work as a book editor?
Yes. She edited for Random House in Syracuse and then New York City.
Yes. Morrison began working as an editor for L. W. Singer, the textbook division of the publisher Random House, in Syracuse, New York. Two years later she transferred to Random House in New York City, where she became the company's first Black woman senior editor in the fiction department.
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Infobox, birth_date
1931-02-18
Infobox, death_date
2019-08-05
Lead section
She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Original language statement
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931, August 5, 2019) was an American novelist and editor.
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