Her first novel published after her win was Paradise, which completed a trilogy that began with Beloved and Jazz. In 1993, Morrison became the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The New York Times Book Review went on to name Beloved the best American novel published in the previous 25 years. Beloved was also adapted for the screen, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. Morrison's fifth novel, Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the American Book Award. And Song of Solomon, her third, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her second novel, Sula, was nominated for the National Book Award. Years later, it would evolve into her first novel, The Bluest Eye. While in college, Toni Morrison began to write a story about a black girl who longed to have blue eyes. As she grew, she read constantly- Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Gustave Flaubert and Jane Austen. Toni Morrison was the only African-American child in her first-grade class and the only one who could read.
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