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Posted: 2:58 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, 2013

Black History Fact: Toni Morrison

2012 Medal of Freedom honorees
AP
Toni Morrison, author of such novels as "Song of Solomon" and "Beloved," was a recipient of the Medal of Freedom earlier this year.

Toni Morrison, writer and the first Black woman to be awarded the "Nobel Prize in Literature," was born in Lorian, OH, on this date in 1931. Morrison received the "Pulitzer Prize" for her book, Beloved, in 1988.

 
 

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