Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist, essayist, book editor, and college professor, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
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Also Known As
Birth Name:
Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Alternative Names:
Chloe Anthony Wofford
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Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
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Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another — physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.
