Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is an American author and professor. She was born Chloe Wofford in 1931 in Ohio, the second child in a black, working class family, and began reading avidly from a young age, favoring authors like Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. The child's keen interest in storytelling also prompted her father to recount fairytales and folklore from the black community, which would influence Morrison′s own writing.

After receiving her BA in English at Howard University (it was here she changed her name from Chloe to Toni), Morrison went to Cornell University to complete her MA, again in English. Her thesis explored themes of suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. Morrison returned to Howard, this time as an English professor. It was there she began writing fiction, including a story about a black girl who yearned for blue eyes. The story was the basis for her 1970 novel The Bluest Eye.

Bibliography:

Peeny Butter Fudge

Toni Morrison; Slade Morrison

ISBN:

9781416983323

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Publication Date:

2009

Binding:

Hardcover

Synopsis:
Even though Mom leaves behind detailed instructions for Nana, the grandmother and the kids have a different idea--dance time, story time, nap time, and fudge-making time--in a book that includes the Nobel Prize-winning coauthor's top-secret family fudge recipe.

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