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) Return to Main Page Return to Name index Return to Career Index Return to County Index |
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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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