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Toni Morrison Biography
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Name at birth: Chloe Anthony Wofford
Toni Morrison is a literary giant of the 1980s and 1990s, and all the more famous for being both a woman and an African-American. Her book Beloved won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize; in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her other major works include Song of Solomon (1977), Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1998). Morrison was named the Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University in 1987.
Other winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature include Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Elfriede Jelinek.
Four Good Links
Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
Handsome fan page; good book synopses and links to many biographies
Nobel Lecture
The text of her speech in 1993
Toni Morrison's Beloved
Insightful Salon article about Morrison, from when the film came out
Women Nobel Prize Laureates
A guide to Morrison, Buck, Curie and others
Vital Stats
Birth
18 February 1931
(age 78)
Birthplace
Death
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Best Known As
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved