Toni Morrison, born February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, is the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her Beloved trilogy. The first novel Beloved, released in 1988 and she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
The second novel in the trilogy, Jazz, was released in 1992 and the following year she won the Nobel Prize in Literature even before the third novel was released.
In 2008, she was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
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