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Toni Morrison

  • Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
  • Chloe Ardelia Wofford
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Morrison, Toni
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Person
Gender
Female
Date of birth
1931-02-18
Place of birth
Lorain
Date of death
2019-08-05
Place of death
The Bronx

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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née 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 Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. Morrison earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. In 1957 she returned to Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964. Morrison became the first black female editor for fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her novel Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience.

The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. She received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020.

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American novelist, editor, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1993, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Last modified: 2020-08-11 (revision #20098)

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Gott, hilf dem KindHardcover978-3-498-04531-92017-05
SulaPaperback3-499-15470-61994-01
MenschenkindPaperback3-499-13065-31994-03
Menschenkind (Rowohlt, 1992)Paperback978-3-499-13065-61992
Solomons LiedPaperback3-499-13547-71993-10
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Goodreads Author ID
3534
ISNI
0000 0003 6863 6040
0000 0001 2103 7927
LibraryThing Author
morrisontoni
MusicBrainz Artist ID
6d1da69e-4274-4e5c-a975-89b2601358ac
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL6784512A
VIAF
109406177
Wikidata ID
Q72334

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