Chloe Ardelia Wofford, the second of four children from a working-class, black family, was born in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford. Her mother was born in Greenville, Alabama, and moved north with her

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Adulthood and editing career: 1949–1975
In 1949, she enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C., seeking the company of fellow black intellectuals. It was while at Howard that she

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While teaching at Howard University from 1957 to 1964, she met Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect, whom she married in 1958. She took his last

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Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York City, on August 5, 2019, from complications of pneumonia.

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Morrison was interviewed by Margaret Busby in a 1988 documentary film by Sindamani Bridglal, entitled Identifiable Qualities, shown on Channel 4.
Morrison was the subject of a film titled Imagine – Toni Morrison Remembers, directed by Jill Nicholls

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Awards
• 1977: National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon
• 1977: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

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Politics
Morrison was not afraid to comment on American politics and race relations.
In writing about the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton, she claimed that since Whitewater, Bill Clintonwas being mistreated in the same

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