On a day like this, 1931: American novelist Toni Morrison is Born

"The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order" -Toni Morrison

February 18, 1931, (Lorain, Ohio, US) Tony Morrison, the American writer noted for her examination of Black experience, especially Black female experience, is born. The central theme of Morrison's novels is the black American experience; in an unjust society, her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity. Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture. Morrison's first book, "The Bluest Eye" (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes. [...]. In 1992 Morrison released "Jazz", a story of violence and passion set in New York City's Harlem during the 1920s. Subsequent novels were "Paradise" (1998), a richly-detailed portrait of a Black utopian community in Oklahoma, and "Love" (2003), an intricate family story that reveals the myriad facets of love and its ostensible opposite [...]. In 1993 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, In 2010 Morrison was made an officer of the French Legion of Honour. Two years later, she was awarded the U.S. Presedential Medal of Freedom Morrison died in August, 5, 2019, Bronx, New York. Text from the Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison Images from pinterest