I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to s… - Toni Morrison

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I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me. (1998)

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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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Birth Name: Chloe Ardelia Wofford

Alternative Names: Chloe Anthony Wofford • Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison • Chloe Anthony Wofford-Morrison

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