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Sharmaine 2nd page Sharmaine Biography Book Report Toni Morrison By: Douglas Century

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**The title of this book is called Toni Morrison by: Douglas Century. This book is about a woman named Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison who was born on February 18,1931 in Lorain, Ohio. As a little girl growing up and rasied in a industrial town of Lorain, Ohio. She was a mother of two sons nameed Harold and Slade, she moved to Syracuse where she worked as an assocat editor at L. W. Singer, a textbook publishing subsidiary of Random House. Toni Morrison is important to black History because she wrote books, at the time she really didn't want to writer, she daydream about being a dancer, but later on she was a student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., she was know as an actress and a book writer.**                                                                                                **Toni Morrison grew up in a great depression, her father was George Wofford was a shipyard welder, who had came to Ohio from Georgia. Toni Morrison mother name was Ramah Willis Wofford she migrated north from Alabama. Her matermal grandfarther John Solomon Willis, was an ex-slave who had own 88 acres of land in Greenville, Alabama. Mrs.Morrison later told Newsweek Magizine about how that her mother and sister explain long divison to their teacher and class. When she was a student at Lorian High School she work in the school Library as an aides. When she was a senior at Lorain High she took part in school activities, as aid music, the senate council, drama club, and the National Honor Socity. I believe her early of bring of the chruch her mother thought her how to read before she enter school, her interest in reading books and story's. She enter frist grade knowing how to read, and by the time she was an adolescent she waas poring over volumes of the masterpieaces of European Literature. She especiallyloved the great Russian novelists, Dostoevski and Tolstoy, but she also read Madoame Bovary, by the French writer Gustave Flaubert, and the novels of the 19th-century English writer Jane Austen. Most of those books were not written for African-American girl in Lorain, Ohio, she would reflect years later, but they were so magnificently done that she got them anyway they spoke directly to her out of thier own specificity.Throughout her childhood she absorbed thefolktales, fables, and songs that for centuries had been such an important aspect of Southern black culture. Toni Morrison was named the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of Humanities at Princeton University on November 8, 1987.Leaving behind her postion at the State University of New York in Alabany ad arriving on the pristine New Jersey campus in the spring of 1989, she became the first African-American woman writer to hold a named chair at an Ivy League university. Toni Morrison's duties at Princeton would be interdisciplinary, she would teach in the creative writing programs and also participate in the African-American studies, American studies, and women's studies departments. As she immersed herself in the demanding life of Ivy League academia, she was already hard at work on a new novel. I admire Toni Morrison when she wrote really good books and novels and that she became a writer, but she really wanted to be a dancer. I also admire her writing because she learn how to read before she even started school and i think that a good thing because some kids when they are little they don't know how to read in the first grade probably so thats whut i admire in Toni Morrison.**            ======