Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison | |
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 Toni Morrison in 2008 | |
| Born | Chloe Ardelia Wofford February 18, 1931 Lorain, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | August 5, 2019 (aged 88) The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer |
| Genre | American literature |
| Notable works | Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye |
| Notable awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988 |
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Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) was an African-American author. She was the second child in her working-class family.
She normally wrote about racial discrimination (racism, mainly the dislike of blacks). She won awards for writing some books and she changed African-American history. She was perhaps the most successful mainly story-writing African woman in the world.
She was a famous writer and she got her good writing by the people she looked up to. They were B.W.Jones and A.I.Vinson. Her first novel (The Bluest Eyes) is the story of a girl ruined by a racist society and its violence and she had son named slade who she wrote this book with dreaming emmett. One of her books, Beloved, was made into a movie in 1998. This movie starred Oprah Winfrey.
Morrison died at a hospital in The Bronx, New York City on August 5, 2019, from problems caused by pneumonia, aged 88.[1][2][3]
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[change | change source]- ↑ Fox, Margalit (2019-08-06). "Toni Morrison, 'Beloved' Author and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 88". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ↑ Italie, Hillel (2019-08-06). "Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ↑ Lea, Richard; Sian Cain (August 6, 2019). "Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate, dies aged 88". The Guardian. Retrieved August 6, 2019.