Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison

• 1931-present

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Toni Morrison

• Morrison was born _________ in Lorain, Ohio.
• The name she was given at birth was
• _______________________
• Her parents were George and Ramah Wofford.
• Morrison was the ______ of four children.

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Morrisons adult life

• Morrison attended ________ University and earned
  a Bachelor of Arts in English.
• Later she received a Master of Arts at
  _________ University.
• In 1958 Morrison married Harold Morrison, an
  ________ from ________ and had two children named
  Harold Ford and Slade Kevin. They divorced in
  _____.

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Morrisons Career

• Morrison has taught English at Texas Southern
  University, Howard University, State University
  of New York at Purchase and at Albany, and at
  ________ University.
• Morrison also worked as a senior editor at
  __________ in New York and helped to publish many
  African American authors.

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Morrisons novels

• Morrison wrote her first novel ________ in 1969.
• Other novels she wrote were
• Beloved, 1987. Jazz, 1992.
• Sula, 1973. Song of Solomon, 1977. Tar
  Baby, 1981. Love, 2003.

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Morrisons Award

• Morrison won the ________ for literature in
  ________.
• Other awards Morrison won are
• Sula
• National Book Award nomination, 1975
• Ohioana Book Award, 1975
• Song of Solomon
• ____________________, 1977
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and
  Letters Award, 1977

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Other Awards

• Beloved is one of Morrisons most awarded novels.
• Beloved
• New York State Governor's Arts Award, _________
• First recipient of the Washington College
  Literary award, 1987
• National Book Award nomination, 1987
• National Book Critics Circle Award nomination,
  1987
• ___________for fiction, 1988
• Robert F. Kennedy Award, 1988
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton Award from National
  Organization for Women

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Sources used

• http//www.cs.berkeley.edu/lakhia/morrison/biogra
  ph.html
• http//www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1993/morr
  ison-cv.html
• http//www.black-collegian.com/african/painted-voi
  ces/tonim.shtml