![]() As the novel begins, blacks in the United States live in a state of fear and poverty. In addition to being a story about the friendship and rivalry between Nel and Sula, Sula can be read as a story about the African-American experience in the first half of the 20th century. In 2019, at the age of 88, Morrison died of complications from pneumonia. Her final novel, God Help the Child, was published in 2015. Morrison taught at Rutgers, Howard, Princeton, and many other colleges and universities. She then completed Sula(1973), for which she was nominated for the National Book Award Song of Solomon (1977), the novel that first brought her widespread acclaim and Beloved (1987), which contributed to her being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. ![]() In 1970 she published her first novel, The Bluest Eye. Following her divorce from her husband, Morrison worked as an editor in New York City, where she was instrumental in publishing the first works of the political activist Angela Davis. ![]() During this time she gave birth to two children, who she raised on her own. ![]() She was married to Harold Morrison, an architect, from 1958 to 1964. She attended Howard University from 1949 to 1953, and later earned a Masters Degree at Cornell. Toni Morrison was born in Ohio to a working-class family that had fled the South to escape racism and economic oppression. ![]()
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