Toni Morrison (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)

Toni Morrison has advanced the African American literary canon by producing unselfconscious works about the experiences of blacks in America for a black audience. Yet in spite of the specificity of her subject matter, her novels, some of which have been translated into other languages, have earned a heartfelt popular and critical approval through their universal appeal.

Morrison, the second of four children, was born Chloe Anthony Wofford into a poor but loving household composed of siblings, parents, grandparents, and sometimes friends. Both of her parents, George and Ramah...

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