I'm a Midwesterner, and everyone in Ohio is excited. I'm also a New Yorker, and a New Jerseyan, and an American, plus I'm an African-American, and a woman. I know it seems like I'm spreading like algae when I put it this way, but I'd like to think of the prize being distributed to these regions and nations and races.

In 1993 Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In May 2006 The New York Times Book Review named Beloved the best American novel publiToni Morrisond in the previous twenty-five years. I have no idea what his real instincts are in terms of race.

Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18 1931) is an American novelist editor and professor. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved. She also was commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera Margaret Garner first performed in 2005.