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Toni Morrison Words and Works

Early Life Born in Lorrain, Ohio in 1931 Her birth name is Chloe Ardelia Wofford She eventually went to Howard University and graduated in 1953 and from Cornell in 1955

Greatest Works Total of nine published novels Her greatest novels are: The Bluest Eye (1970) Song of Solomon (1977) Tar Baby (1981) Beloved (1987)

Life Outside of the Pages Morrison has been an outspoken activist on issues such as civil rights and women’s rights and role in society She has been a guest lecturer at several institutions and museams such as Princeton University and the Louvre Museum in Paris

Influences Morrison’s influences as a child were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy Her writing has been compared to Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Alex Haley Her style of writing can be seen in nearly every urban literature writer of the past decade.

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