Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning U. S. author Toni Morrison has been appointed as an officer of the French Legion of Honor. France's culture minister, Frederic Mitterrand, introduced Morrison at a formal procedure in Paris last Wednesday.

Morrison expressed that she realized prized while receiving the honor, which was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to consider very important assistance to French military, culture, science or society. She was the initial woman writer to pen down the sorrowful history of Afro-Americans.

They are beloved as expressed by Mitterrand, pointing to the Morrison's much-admired 1987 novel Beloved.

He also termed to Morrison as the biggest American novelist of her era. She was born in Ohio in 1931. Morrison was raised up in a average working class family but later went on to study at Howard University, Cornell University and Yale.

She is a chair at Princeton every since 1989 and lectures on African-American literature. Morrison acclaimed the Pulitzer Award for fiction in 1988 for Beloved and succeeds in getting the Nobel Prize for her Literature in 1993.