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Full Name: Toni Morrison
Biography:
(1931-2019) Novelist. Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, and died in the Bronx, New York. She was a winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
Author's Timeline:
1931 (Unknown) County
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, on February 18, 1931. 
1955 Tompkins County
Ms. Morrison earned a master's degree in English from Cornell University in 1955. 
1965 Onondaga County
Around 1965 Ms. Morrison moved to Syracuse, New York, and worked as an editor with Random House. 
1968 (Unknown) County
In the late 1960s Ms. Morrison moved to New York City and worked as an editor at Random House. 
1970 (Unknown) County
The Bluest Eye
(Pub: Holt, Rinehart and Winston ISBN: 0030850746 / 978-0030850745)
Novel. 
1973 (Unknown) County
Sula
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0394480449 / 978-0394480442)
Novel. 
1977 (Unknown) County
Song Of Solomon
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0394497848 / 978-0394497846)
Novel. 
1981 (Unknown) County
Tar Baby
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0394423291 / 978-0394423296)
Novel. 
1987 (Unknown) County
Beloved
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0394535979 / 978-0394535975)
Novel. 
1992 (Unknown) County
Jazz
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0679411674 / 978-0679411673)
Novel. 
1997 (Unknown) County
Paradise
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0679433740 / 978-0679433743)
Novel. 
2003 (Unknown) County
Love
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0375409448 / 978-0375409448)
Novel. 
2008 (Unknown) County
A Mercy
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 978-0307264237)
Novel. 
2012 (Unknown) County
Home
(Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: 0307594165 / 978-0307594167)
Novel. 
2019 Bronx County
Toni Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, on August 5, 2019. 
2019 Rockland County
Ms. Morrison lived in Grand View-on-Hudson, New York, at the time of her death. 
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