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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.
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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.
Sep 26, 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.
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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.
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.”
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Feb 12, 2024 · One of the great 20th-Century novelists, Morrison consciously aimed her work at black American readers. In a 2003 interview, she told the BBC about why that made her writing sing.
- Myles Burke
Aug 5, 2019 · A member since 1981 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has been awarded a number of literary distinctions, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1991-1995, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997.
Aug 5, 2019 · Toni Morrison The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Born: 18 February 1931, Lorain, OH, USA Died: 5 August 2019, New York, NY, USA Residence at the time of the award: USA Prize motivation: “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”
