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Born February 18 in Lorain, Ohio to George and Ella Ramah Wofford.
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Graduated Lorain High School.
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Graduated Howard University. B. A. English; Classics Minor.
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Married Harold Morrison, Jamaican Architect. Couple has two sons, Harold Ford and Slade Kevin.
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Song of Solomon, published by Knopf. Song of Solomon was chosen as a Book-of -the Month-Selection, the first by an African American author since Richard Wright’s Native Son.
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Tar Baby, published by Knopf.
Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Appeared on cover of March issue of Newsweek Magazine. -
Beloved, was published by Knopf.
Received Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. -
Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.
