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Toni Morrison
1931–2019
American novelist and editor (1931–2019)
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1931 February 18, 1931 →Death
2019 August 5, 2019 →Biography
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison was an American novelist and editor. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987).
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Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (born 1931).
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