NAME: Toni Morrison
(given name, Chloe Anthony Wofford)
BORN: February 18, 1931
PARENTS:
George and Ramah Wofford
COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS:
hometown...Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County)
EDUCATION:
graduated, Howard University, B.A., English
(minor classics)
graduated, Cornell University, M.A.
OCCUPATION: author
senior editor, Random House (1965-85)
instructor/professor:
--- Texas Southern University (1955-57)
--- Howard University (1957-64)
--- State Univ. of New York, Purchase (1971-72)
--- State Univ. of New York, Albany (1984-89)
--- Princeton University (since 1989)
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FAST FACTS:
Morrison has received numerous awards for her literary accomplishments, including the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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