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Memorial Page for Toni Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford)
Feb 18, 1931 – Aug 5, 2019(88 years)Died in:The Bronx, New York
African American novelist, essayist, and academic
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August 5th, 2026
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Biography
Toni Morrison (* February 18, 1931 in Lorain; † August 5, 2019 in The Bronx) was an african American novelist, essayist, and academic. She was 88 years old. She was married to Harold Morrison. Her education included Lorain High School, Howard University and Cornell University. Her faith was Catholicism. She received 9 awards, including Nobel Prize in Literature, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Her cause of death was pneumonia. She was buried at South-View Cemetery.
Life Events
12 EventsBorn in Lorain, Lorain County
1931Married Harold Morrison
1958until 1964
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
1977Song of Solomon
American Book Awards
1988Beloved
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
1988Beloved
Princeton University
1989Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities
Nobel Prize in Literature
1993National Humanities Medal
2000Norman Mailer Prize
2009The Nichols-Chancellor's Medal
2013PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
2013Died in The Bronx, New York (pneumonia)
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Toni Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford). Forever remembered.