Toni Morrison
Award-winning author Toni Morrison spent the first part of her life working as an English professor and editor at Random House publishing. During this time she used to wake up at 4 a.m. to write fiction, she told The Guardian, meeting regularly with writer’s groups at Howard University.
In 1970, when she was almost 40 years old, she published her first novel “The Bluest Eye.” Over the next decade and a half she gained increasing recognition, winning several book awards, but it was 1987’s “Beloved” that turned her into a world-renowned celebrity at age 56.
The first book in Morrison’s unofficial-if-self-described trilogy (which also includes “Jazz” and “Paradise”) spent 25 weeks on the best-seller list and the third one earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature—making her the first African American to ever win the award.
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I spent a decade in Hollywood mostly as an extra then a stand in.