22 June 2020
This is what we know: More than once, Toni Morrison was a woman picking her way through a reinvention of her life.
She'd been Chloe Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, the daughter of a mother who loved books and a ship-welder father who taught her the pride of a craft well done. She'd been Toni Wofford, a drama-loving English major and homecoming queen at Howard University, and then she was Toni Morrison after getting married, adopting her husband's surname and becoming a mother.
