By 2005, with eight novels published, Toni Morrison had won a place as one of the major American novelists of the twentieth century. She has also published two books of non-fiction: essays on social and literary topics. Her themes have been summarized as "the position of black people in US society; the damage men do to women; the sustaining bonds between women; the power of memory and the impact of the past on the present; the corruption of innocence; redemption."
Milestones
18 February 1931 TM was born as Chloe Anthony Wofford in the small steel town of
Lorain,
Ohio,
USA, one of four children.
By mid-1987 TM published her most famous novel to date,
Beloved, a historical work about the protagonist's relationship with her daughter, whom she kills to effect her escape from slavery.
