Toni Morrison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Toni Morrison

Afro-American writer

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1931

Place of Birth: Lorain, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 05-Aug-2019

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher, children's writer, novelist, librettist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Toni Morrison

  • Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor.
  • 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 gained worldwide recognition when 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.S.
  • in English and just two years from Cornell University with a master's in American Literature.
  • She later taught English at Howard University, was married, and had two children before divorcing in 1964.
  • In the late 1960s, she became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City.
  • In the 1970s and 1980s, she developed her own reputation as an author, and her perhaps most celebrated work, Beloved, was made into a 1998 film. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.
  • federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.
  • Also that year, she was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
  • On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

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