Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison

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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison was an acclaimed American novelist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for her powerful explorations of African American life and history in works such as "Beloved."

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instanceOf American writer
Nobel Prize laureate
Pulitzer Prize winner
essayist
human
novelist
professor
academicDegree B.A. in English
M.A. in English
alsoKnownAs Toni Morrison
awardReceived American Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
Nobel Prize in Literature
PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
birthName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chloe Anthony Wofford
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1931-02-18
dateOfDeath 2019-08-05
educatedAt Cornell University
Howard University
employer Princeton University
Random House
ethnicGroup African American
familyName Wofford
fieldOfWork African American history
literature
race and identity
gender female
genre African American literature
literary fiction
givenName Chloe
hasChild Harold Ford Morrison
Slade Morrison
influencedBy African American oral tradition
slave narratives
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement African American literature
surface form: African American literature movement

postmodern literature
notableFor depictions of Black female experience
explorations of African American life and history
notableWork A Mercy
Beloved
God Help the Child
Home
Jazz
Love
Paradise
Song of Solomon
Sula
Tar Baby
The Bluest Eye
occupation editor
essayist
novelist
professor
placeOfBirth Lorain, Ohio, United States
placeOfDeath New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
positionHeld Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University
editor at Random House
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Harold Morrison
writingStyle lyrical prose
nonlinear narrative

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Chloe birthName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
subject surface form: Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
this entity surface form: Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison birthName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison self-linksurface differs
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Toni Morrison birthName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
this entity surface form: Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Wofford birthName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
subject surface form: Toni Morrison
this entity surface form: Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Toni Morrison fullName Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison