How Did Toni Morrison Influence African American Culture

An extraordinary writer of African-American literature would be Toni Morrison. She has written many marvelous stories such as The Bluest Eyes, Sula, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Paradise. Morrison’s central them in her novels was the black American experience from 1970-1980, she found ways to express what black Americans felt in that time era.
Childhood
Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio; her parents and her moved to the North to escape the problems of southern racism. She grew up in a steel-mill town of Lorain on Lake Erie during the 1930. Up to this day the marvelous novelist Toni Morrison is alive and well. One of the many experiences Morrison had as a child was having to deal with the extrinsic problems of the world because of you skin tone, but even like that she never became a reclusive person.
Influences

Morrison’s work is also very much influenced by her African American culture. The most important decision Morrison made in her life was to leave the small town in Ohio to go obtain a college degree, after graduating top of her class. A very important problem she had to face was being born African American, she had to work twice as hard to achieve her goals. The way she told her problems was by working as hard as she could and proving people who told her she couldn't do it wrong.
Accomplishments
One of her many novels and the one that won her the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature was Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). She also won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved in 1988. Then, in 1996 she was honoured with the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the letter was given to a writer “who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work."(4)