Toni Morrison
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (Feb 18, 1931 – Aug 5, 2019), was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) won the Nat
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (Feb 18, 1931 – Aug 5, 2019), was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987) she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. The very same year, she was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. In 2020, Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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