Toni Morrison
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.
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| 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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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]
Toni Morrison Media
Morrison's portrait on the first-edition dust jacket of The Bluest Eye (1970)
Morrison, with her sons Ford (left) and Slade (right) at their upstate New York home, between 1980 and 1987
Toni Morrison lecture at West Point Military Academy in March, 2013.
Street art depicting Morrison in Vitoria, Spain
A quote from Morrison at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama
Morrison Dining, part of the North Campus Residential Expansion, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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References
- ↑ Fox, Margalit (2019-08-06). "Toni Morrison, 'Beloved' Author and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 88" (in en-US). The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/toni-morrison-dead.html. 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. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/06/toni-morrison-author-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-aged-88. Retrieved August 6, 2019.