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Biography of Toni Morrison Biography of Toni Morrison • Name: Chloe Ardelia Wofford. • Born: 18 February 1931, Lauren, Ohio, US . • Father: George Wofford. • Mother: Ramah Wofford. • wife husband : . Early life of Toni Morrison:         Tony Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (nee Willis) and George Wofford. He is the second of four children in a working-class, African-American family. Her mother was born in Greenville, Alabama, and moved north with her family as a child. Her father grew up in Cartersville, Georgia. When he was about 15 years old, white people raised two black merchants living in his street. Morrison said: "He never told us that he had not seen the corpses. But he had seen them. And that was very painful, I think, for him." Soon after Lynching, George Wofford moved to the racially integrated city of Ohio in hopes of avoiding racism and gaining gainful employment in Ohio's cumbersome industrial economy.   ...