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Birthday
***, 1931
Birthplace
Lorain, Ohio
Death day
August 5, 2019 (88 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
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Toni Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, is an American novelist, essayist, editor and teacher. His first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. Solomon's critically acclaimed song gained national attention and won the National Book Critics Association award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; She gained worldwide recognition when she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. In 1955, she received an MA in American Literature from Cornell University. In 1957, she returned to Howard University, married and had two children before divorcing in 1964. In the late 1960s, she became the first black fiction writer at Random House in New York. During the 1970s and 1980s, she developed a reputation as an author, and her perhaps most famous work, Beloved, was made into a film in 1998
Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.
Died August 05, 2019, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Occupation novelist, essayist, children's writer, professor
Education Howard University (BA), Cornell University (MA)
Genre American literature
Notable works The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), Beloved (1987)
Notable awards Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Humanities Medal, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Spouse Harold Morrison (1958–1964)
Children 2 sons

About Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Sula are among his best-known works as an author, educator, and School Princeton University Professor Emeritus. Beloved, her most well-known work, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.

Toni Morrison before fame

She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford and received her bachelor's degree in English from School Howard University in 1953. She then went on to School Cornell University for graduate study. Her first work, The Bluest Eye, was released in 1970.

Achievement of Toni Morrison

She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Toni Morrison family life

Ramah Willis and George Wofford were her parents. Harold Morrison, a professor and architect, married her in 1958. Before divorcing in 1964, the couple had two children.

Associations of Toni Morrison

Following the publication of Morrison's novel Beloved, Poet Margaret Atwood gave a glowing review in The New York Times.

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Latest information about Toni Morrison updated on March 21 2022.