Toni Morrison Biography

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Updated on June 11, 2024

Full Name: Toni Morrison

Original Name: Chloe Anthony Wofford

Date of Birth: February 18, 1931

Place of Birth: Lorain, Ohio

Nationality: American

Status: American novelist

Religion: Christianity

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Family:

Spouse/Partner Name: Harold Morrison

Father Name: George Wofford

Mother Name: Ramah

Children: Two

Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize winning author, editor and professor of America.
Toni Morrison is the second of four children of George Wofford.
Morrison’s father was a welder by trade.
Morrison became an English Instructor and Teacher at Taxas Southern University in Houston and then Howard.
She divorced in 1964.
Morrison has also co-written books for children with her youngest son, Slade Morrison.
She is the member of the editorial board of The Nation magazine.
She was honored by the President who said about her that Morrison had “entered America’s heart.”

National Book Critics Circle Award (1977)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1977)
Honorary degree, Barnard College (1979)
Pulitzer Prize (1988)
American Book Award (1988)
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1987-88)
Helmerich Award
Nobel Prize for Literature
Jefferson Lecture (1996)
National Book Foundation’s Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1996)
National Humanities Medal (2000)
Honorary degree, Oxford University (2005)