Examines the life and work of the successful novelist, who became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, Toni Morrison grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Discover...