Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. 鈥55, will be one of six women inducted into the National Women鈥檚 Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
The virtual induction ceremony, scheduled for Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m., is open to the public. .
Morrison, , earned a bachelor of science degree in English in 1953 at Howard University and a master鈥檚 degree in American literature in 1955 at Cornell. Her master鈥檚 thesis was on 鈥淰irginia Woolf鈥檚 and William Faulkner鈥檚 treatment of the alienated.鈥
An A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell from 1997 to 2003, Morrison returned to the Ithaca campus numerous times over the years. She was the Robert F. Goheen Professor Emerita of the Humanities at Princeton, where she taught from 1989 to 2006.
Her first novel, 鈥淭he Bluest Eye,鈥 was published in 1970. She wrote 10 other novels that explored and illuminated the Black American experience, including 鈥淏eloved,鈥 for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and 鈥淪ong of Solomon,鈥 which earned her a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977.
She also wrote 鈥淛azz,鈥 鈥淪ula,鈥 鈥淭ar Baby鈥 and 鈥淧aradise,鈥 as well as children鈥檚 books and essay collections. In 1993, Morrison became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
The 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 is in the midst of a yearlong celebration of Morrison, which included an featuring authors, poets, students and community members, and an Oct. 15 teach-in with Cornell faculty members. Spring events include a roundtable discussion with Morrison scholars, a staged reading of Morrison鈥檚 work and various reading groups and displays.
Other 2020 Women鈥檚 Hall of Fame inductees include Aretha Franklin, singer and activist; Mary Church Terrell, suffragist; Barbara Hillary, adventurer; Barbara Rose Johns, activist and librarian; and Henrietta Lacks, who revolutionized medical research.
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