... eventually born. She grew up during the Great Depression, which her father compensated for by working three jobs for seventeen years ("Toni Morrison Biography"). African American folklore, music, rituals, and myths filled Morrison's childhood, and storytelling was an important part of life in the Wofford family. As soon as she learned how to read, it became one of her ... English from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, she taught for two years at Texas Southern University in Houston before she returned to Howard University to teach ("Toni Morrison Biography"). It wasn't long before ...

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