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Her first novel, The Bluest Eye , was published in Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in In she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction at Random House in New York City in the late s.

She developed her own reputation as an author in the s and '80s. Her novel Beloved was made into a film in Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in She was a homemaker and a devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

When Wofford was about 15 years old, a group of white people lynched two African-American businessmen who lived on his street. Morrison later said: "He never told us that he'd seen bodies. But he had seen them.

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And that was too traumatic, I think, for him. He worked odd jobs and as a welder for U. In a interview Morrison said that her father, traumatized by his experiences of racism, hated whites so much he would not let them in the house. When Morrison was about two years old, her family's landlord set fire to the house in which they lived, while they were home, because her parents could not afford to pay rent.