Toni morrison biography timeline with pictures
Toni morrison biography timeline with pictures and movies.
How It All Went Down
Feb 18, 1931
Toni Morrison Born
Chloe Ardelia Wofford is born in Lorain, Ohio, the second of four children born to George and Ramah Willis Wofford.
Toni morrison biography timeline with pictures
(Toni Morrison, the name by which she is later widely known, is a mix of a college nickname and her married name.)
1949
Starts College
Wofford enrolls at Howard University, the historically black university in Washington, D.C.
1953
Graduates from Howard
Wofford receives her B.A.
in English from Howard.
1955
Earns Graduate Degree
Wofford is awarded a master's degree in English from Cornell. Her thesis examines the appearance of suicide in the novels of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf.
She receives a teaching position at Texas Southern University in Houston.
1957
Back to Howard
After two years at Texas Southern, Wofford joins the faculty at Howard University as an English instructor.
1958
Marriage
Wofford marries Harold Morrison, a fellow faculty member at Howard.
Though the couple has