She spent her childhood in the Midwest where Europeans, Whites, Blacks, and Mexicans lived amongst each other in the neighborhoods of Lorain. She attended a desegregated school and at an early age displayed an interest in reading and writing. In school, she was the only black student in her class, and she was also the only one who could read, regardless of color. Chloe was an excellent student who enjoyed reading works from many different writers, her early favorites being the Russian authors Lev Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, French writer Gustave Flaubert, an

She was also awarded a number of other literary distinctions, among them the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Beloved in 1988. She became the eighth woman and first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in1993. Other major awards and honors include the Distinguished Writer Award she received from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978, the title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and the Pearl Buck Award she received in 1994, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters she received in 1996, and over eight honorary degrees received from various colleges and universities.

and still growing as she continues to write today, and her contributions to society didn’t go unnoticed. In 1987, Toni was named the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of Humanities at Princeton University. She became the first black woman writer to hold a named chair at an Ivy League University.

d English novelist Jane Austen. One of her greatest influences, though, is the American writer William Faulkner.

All that she has been honored wi

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