The Washington PostMs. Morrison was “an African American woman giving voice to essentially silent stories,” Elizabeth Beaulieu, a dean at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt.
, and the editor of “The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia,” said in an interview. “She is writing the African American story for American history.”
Beyond her own literature, Ms. Morrison was credited with giving voice to black stories through her work as a Random House editor beginning in the late 1960s. There was a “terrible price to pay,” she once remarked, for leaving the comfortable familiarity of Lorain, the Ohio town where she had grown up, for a career in an unwelcoming white society.Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison took the nickname Toni at age 12.
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