Chloe

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Chloe is the birth name of Nobel Prize–winning American novelist Toni Morrison, renowned for her powerful explorations of African American life and history.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
alsoKnownAs Toni Morrison
awardReceived National Book Critics Circle Award
Nobel Prize in Literature
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
birthName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
surface form: "Chloe Ardelia Wofford"
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Cornell University
Howard University
employer Princeton University
Random House
ethnicGroup African American
fieldOfWork African American literature
American literature
genre historical fiction
literary fiction
givenName Chloe
influencedBy African American oral tradition
slave narratives
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainTheme Black womanhood
memory and trauma
race and identity
slavery and its legacy in the United States
movement African American literary renaissance of the late 20th century
postmodern literature
notableAchievement first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
notableFor explorations of African American life and history
notableWork A Mercy
Beloved
God Help the Child
Home
Jazz
Love
Paradise
Song of Solomon
Sula
The Bluest Eye
occupation editor
novelist
university professor
positionHeld Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University
sexOrGender female
writingStyle lyrical prose
nonlinear narrative structures

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chloe givenName Chloe
subject surface form: "Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison"
Toni Morrison givenName Chloe

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