On this day, author Toni Morrison, née Chloe Ardelia Wofford, was born in Lorain, Ohio, the second of four children in a working-class family. Morrison is best known for writing The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993 and, in 1987, the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved.

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