A Teacher, Novelist and Trailblazer

In celebration of Women’s History Month we at Kushinda USA would love to put a spot light on Toni Morrison the First Black Female winner of the Noble Prize for her Literary work Born in Lorain Ohio she adored the history and richness of African American culture and continued her education higher education at Howard University and Cornell University. Afterwards she began teaching English at Texas Southern University and Howard University for the next 7 years. Where she became the First Black Female Senior Editor in the fiction department at Random House in New York City. Here she began her writing career with “ Contemporary African Literature “which was a amazing collection of literary works from various influential African Americans of that age. Then moving to her first novel “ The Bluest Eye” followed by “ Sula” which was nominated for National Book Award. And followed that effort with “ Song of Solomon “ that brought her national attention. From here she began the trilogy that would eventually win her the Noble Prize her famous “Beloved” Series with a citation as stated “ who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives lifer to an aspect of American reality.”

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