Toni Morrison
American novelist
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford;[1] Februar 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019) wis an American novelist, eeditor, an Professor Emeritus at Princeton Varsity. Her novelles are kent for thair epic themes, vivid dialogue, an richly detailed chairacters. Amang her best kent novelles are The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), an Beloved (1987).
Toni Morrison | |
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Toni Morrison at "A Tribute to Chinua Achebe", New York Ceety, Februar 2008 | |
Born | Chloe Ardelia Wofford 18 Februar 1931 Lorain, Ohio, Unitit States |
Dee'd | 5 August 2019 (aged 88) New York Ceety, New York, Unitit States |
Thrift | Novelist, writer |
Genre | American leeteratur |
Notable warks | Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye |
Notable awairds | Presidential Medal o Freedom 2012 Naitional Humanities Medal 2000 Nobel Prize in Leeteratur 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Feection 1988 |
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References
eedit- ↑ Duvall, John N. (2000). The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison: Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-312-23402-7.
After all the published biographical information on Morrison agrees that her full name is Chloe Anthony Wofford, so that the adoption of 'Toni' as a substitute for 'Chloe' still honors her given name, if somewhat obliquely. Morrison's middle name, however, was not Anthony; her birth certificate indicates her full name as Chloe Ardelia Wofford, which reveals that Ramah and George Wofford named their daughter for her maternal grandmother, Ardelia Willis.