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Toni Morrison. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics ...
- Chloe Ardelia Wofford, February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.
Apr 2, 2014 · Toni Morrison was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Among her best-known novels are 'The Bluest Eye,' 'Song of Solomon,' 'Beloved' and 'A Mercy.'
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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 ...
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Mar 27, 2024 · Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison, c. 1980–87. Morrison’s first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes. In 1973 a second novel, Sula, was published; it examines (among other issues) the dynamics of friendship and ...
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Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. The second of four children, Morrison’s birth name was Chloe Anthony Wofford. Although she grew up in a semi-integrated area, racial discrimination was a constant threat. When Morrison was two years old, the owner of her family’s apartment building set their home on fire while ...
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Nov 3, 2020 · Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931, to August 5, 2019) was an American novelist, editor, and educator whose novels focused on the experience of Black Americans, particularly emphasizing Black women's experience in an unjust society and the search for cultural identity.
Aug 6, 2019 · Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, was the only African American writer and one of the few women to have received the Nobel prize for literature. The announcement of her 1993 award cited her as ...
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