Toni Morrison
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1993who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/18/1931
- place of birth
- Lorain
- date of death
- 8/5/2019
- place of death
- The Bronx, New York City
- Lived
- 88 years
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- educated at
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- Cornell University
- academic degree: Master of Arts
- Howard University
- academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
- Lorain High School
- end time: 1949
- Cornell University
- employer
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- Princeton University
- start time: 1989
- Princeton University
- position held
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- Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities
- start time: 1989
- Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities
- notable work
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- Beloved
- Jazz
- Love
- Home
- The Bluest Eye
- Sula
- Tar Baby
- A Mercy
- Paradise
- Song of Solomon
- God Help the Child
- field of work
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- African American literature
- English studies
- American literature
- poetry
- literature
- member of
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- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- occupation
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- university teacher
- librettist
- writer
- poet
- young adult author
- children's writer
- novelist
- audiobook narrator
- editing staff
- essayist
- work location
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- Ithaca
- Princeton
- Washington, D.C.
- Houston
- New York City