She was born Chloe Wofford; "Toni" came from her middle name, Anthony, and "Morrison" from her ex-husband. Until she went away to college at Howard University, she had always lived surrounded by ...

D.C., because Toni was easier for other people to pronounce. Morrison was the surname of her ex-husband, a Jamaican architect whom she divorced in 1964 after six years of marriage. A small ...

She picked up the nickname “Toni” in school (from her saint’s name, Anthony), and Morrison was the last name of her long-ago ex-husband. To this day, she deeply regrets leaving that now ...

In interviews, Ms. Morrison rarely spoke of the marriage, though she intimated that her husband had wanted a traditional 1950s wife — and that, she could never be. The Nobel laureate Toni ...

She didn’t intend for Toni Morrison to be her published name ... She felt she didn’t conform to her husband’s notion of what a wife should be. “I don’t think I did any of that very ...

Toni Morrison, born and raised in small-town Ohio ... During this period, she met her husband, gave birth to her first son, became pregnant with her second, and got divorced.

Toni Morrison, author of seminal works of literature ... sons – Harold Ford in 1961 and Slade Kevin in 1964. She and her husband divorced after six years of marriage. Morrison began her storied ...

MORRISON, TONI (18th Feb. 1931 - 5th Aug. 2019) was a renowned and award-winning American author and professor. Morrison wrote extensively about the plight of African Americans and Black people, ...