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. In 1993, she became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1]

Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison in 2008
Born	Chloe Ardelia Wofford (1931-02-18)February 18, 1931 Lorain, Ohio, U.S.
Died	August 5, 2019(2019-08-05) (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 was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford,^[2] the second of four children from a working-class, Black family, in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford.^[3] In a 2015 interview Morrison said that her father, traumatized by his experiences of racism, hated whites so much he would not let them in the house.^[4] She studied at Howard University and at Cornell University.^[5]

She normally wrote about racial discrimination (racism, mainly the dislike of blacks).^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8] 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.^[5][8][9]