- Toni Morrison is 80 years old
- Born: 18 February 1931
- Birthplace: Lorain, Ohio
- Best known as:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved
4 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 <i>Beloved</i>
Insightful Salon article about Morrison, from when the film came out
- Women Nobel Prize Laureates
A guide to Morrison, Buck, Curie and others
Toni Morrison Biography
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.
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