Toni Morrison was born on February 18th, 1931 and was raised in a small black working-class family in Lorain, ____
Her birthname was actually _____ Ardelia Wofford, and shared the name with this celebrity
Morrison got her name 'Toni' when she became a Catholic at 12, naming herself after her chosen saint _____ of Padua
In 1949, she enrolled in Howard University, in _____. She graduated in 1953 with a B.A. in English
Later on, she went to earn a Master of Arts in American Literature from _____ University
She then went to begin teaching at _____ Southern University in 1955, before returning to her original university and meeting her future husband, Harold
Toni Morrison had two sons, called Harold (or Ford) and _____ before divorcing in 1964. She never remarried.
Morrison began working as an editor for L. W. Singer, a textbook division of _____ House, the first black woman to do so
Over the years, she brought to publication many black people's writings, including the biography of _____, titled 'The Greatest: My Own Story'
At the same time, she started to write her own books, the first titled 'The Bluest _____' (1970)
Her third novel 'Song of _____' brought national acclaim, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as being a main selection of the Book of the Month Club award
She wrote more books, such as 'Sula' (1975), nominated for the National Book Award and '_____ Baby' (1981)
Morrison also branched off into playwriting as well, with her first play in 1986, titled 'Dreaming _____', based on the murder of the black teenage boy.
Then, Morrison was elevated unto the world stage with the release of her novel 'Beloved' (1987), focused on the real-life story of _____
'Beloved' was a bestseller for 25 weeks, winning the _____ for Fiction the following year.
'Beloved' was the first of the Beloved Trilogy with the other novels being '_____' (1992) and 'Paradise' (1997)
She won the _____ for Literature in 1993 as an author 'who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality'.
'Beloved' was a success to the point it was also nominated for a _____ Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 1999
The talk show host _____ selected a few of Morrison's books for her Book Club, leading to her sales skyrocketing, benefitting from the '_____ effect'
'Beloved' was even turned into a movie, starring the aforementioned host, and actor _____.
From 1989 until her retirement in 2006, Morrison held the Robert F. Goheen Chair in the Humanities at _____ University.
Toni Morrison kept on writing more novels, including 'Love' (2003), 'A Mercy' (2008), 'Home' (2012) and the final one 'God Help the _____' (2015)
She died in 2019 at the age of 88 in the Bronx, _____ from pneumonia.
That didn't stop her from being inducted into the National _____ of Fame in 2020. May her legacy live on forever!
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