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Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, the second of four children from a working-class, Black family, in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. Her mother was born in Greenville, Alabama, and moved north with her family as a child.She was a homemaker and a devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. ...
Jul 3, 2024 · Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 2019, Bronx, New York) was an American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community and for her poetic, luminous prose.
Apr 2, 2014 · Toni Morrison was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Her best-known novels are “The Bluest Eye,” “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” and “A Mercy.”
Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated authors in the world. In addition to writing plays, and children’s books, her novels have earned her countless prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
Aug 6, 2019 · The Toni Morrison Society, devoted to the study of her life and work, was founded in 1993. If there is a unifying thread running through Ms. Morrison’s writing, it is perhaps nowhere more vivid ...
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) was an American author, editor, and professor who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature for being an author "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality."
Aug 5, 2019 · The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"
Aug 6, 2019 · Toni Morrison receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on May 29, 2012 in Washington, D.C. Leigh Vogel—WireImage
Aug 6, 2019 · “Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,” the family announced. “She was an extremely devoted mother, grandmother, and aunt who reveled in being ...
Aug 6, 2019 · Toni Morrison was a towering intellect, a brilliant scribe of our nation’s complex stories, a heartbreaking journalist of our deepest desires, and a groundbreaking author who destroyed precepts ...
