02/29/2016
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
Happy 85th birthday to Toni Morrison! Chloe Ardelia Wofford was born in Lorain, Ohio, on this day in 1931. Ms. Morrison is the author of The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), and Beloved (1987) and other works. She won the Pulitzer Prize, the American Book Award, and in 1993 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On May 29, 2012, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
