Toni Morrison alias Chloe Ardelia is a renown author, editor and professor who penetrated the hall of fame after achieving the highest recognition, the Nobel prize in the year 1993. Morrison’s novel comprises of epic themes, dramatic dialogue and abundantly details of black characters. Morrison’s best novels which made her famous include, “The Bluest Eye”, “Song Of Solomon”, and “Beloved”. Beloved was her fifth novel, based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner, for which she was honored with “Pulitzer Prize” in the year 1987. In 2001 Morrison got the recognition as one among the “30 Most Powerful Women in America" by a leading American magazine titled “Ladies Home Journal”.

Toni Morrison was born in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio America to ,Ramah Willis Wofford and George Wofford in a working class family. Morrison grew up with her three siblings. She was a steady reader from a young age. Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy were among her favorite authors. During her childhood, she used to listen to folk tales of black community from her father George Wofford, who was a welder. These childhood folk tales inspired her to write about the black community. In the year 1949 Tony Morrison was admitted to famous Howard University of Washington D.C to study English. She attained B.A. in English from the University in 1953. She took admission in Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1955, to earn a Master of Arts degree in English. During the course, she wrote a thesis on suicide, in the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Morrison after completing her graduation, worked as an English instructor at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, from 1955 to 1957. She then relocated to Howard to teach English. Later on Morrison joined a society named “Alpha Kappa Alpha”, the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women, founded in 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

In the year 1958 Morrison married with a Jamaican, named Harold Morrison. They were blessed with two children named, Harold and Slade. Their marriage did not last long and were divorced in 1964. After separation from her husband, she positioned herself to Syracuse, New York, where she worked as a textbook editor. Eighteen months later, Morrison joined Random House as an editor, Random House is the world's largest English general trade book publisher. Morrison as an editor, worked hard in bringing literature of black’s into mainstream. Morrison edited books by famous authors: Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Gayl Jones.

Morrison initiated fiction writing as a member of an unofficial group of authors and poets at Howard University, who often met to talk about their work progress. Morrison in a meeting went with a short story of a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. This was the story included in her first novel titled “The Bluest Eye”, published in the year 1970. Morrison wrote this story, while she had the responsibility of raising two children along with teaching at Howard University. In the year 2000 it was chosen as a selection for “Oprah's Book Club”, a book discussion club segment of the American talk show named ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show”. Later on Morrison wrote numerous award winning critically acclaimed books including, “Sula” in 1973 was nominated for the “National Book Award”, “Song of Solomon” of 1977, won the “National Book Critics Circle Award”, but in 1988, her highly appreciated novel “Beloved” could win, neither “National Book Award” nor “National Book Critics Circle Award”. However, shortly, “Beloved” won the “Pulitzer Prize for fiction”. This novel was adapted in the 1998 by Harpo Productions to make a film of the same name. In the year 1993 Morrison became the first black women Nobel Prize winner in Literature.

Toni Morrison was awarded “Barnard Medal of Distinction” by Barnard College in 1973 and in June 2005 she received “honorary Doctor of letters” award from Oxford University.

Later on Morrison took the responsibilities of teaching in some of the reputed Universities of America and wrote some political phrases which were adopted as a positive by Clinton supporters. Morrison is currently a member of the editorial board of “The Nation” a weekly magazine of United States periodical, devoted to politics and culture, self-described as "the flagship of the left”