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Toni Morrison
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 18 February 1931
- Died
- 5 August 2019
- Place of birth
- Lorain
- Place of death
- The Bronx, New York City
- Sex or gender
- female
- Spouse
- Harold Morrison
- Field of work
- poetry, literature, African American literature, American literature, English studies
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, librettist, university teacher, poet, children's writer, audiobook narrator, editing staff, young adult author, essayist
- Position held
- Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Norman Mailer Prize, National Humanities Medal, The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, American Book Awards, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Helmerich Award
- academic degree
- Honorary Doctor of Letters, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts
- archives at
- Princeton University Library
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
- birth name
- Chloe Ardelia Wofford
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- described by source
- Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers, Notable Black American Women, American Women Writers, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.), The Foreigner's Home
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Lorain High School, Howard University, Cornell University
- employer
- Princeton University
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- influenced by
- Henry Dumas, Zora Neale Hurston, Doris Lessing, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Herman Melville
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Alpha Kappa Alpha
- named after
- Anthony of Padua
- nominated for
- National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Dublin Literary Award, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children
- notable work
- The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Tar Baby, Jazz, Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home, God Help the Child
- place of burial
- South-View Cemetery
- relative
- Cecilia Rouse
- residence
- Syracuse, Lorain, New York City, Ohio
- topic's main category
- Category:Toni Morrison
- work location
- Washington, D.C., Ithaca, Houston, New York City, Princeton
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