Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, February 18, 1931, in Lorain, OH; daughter of George and Ramah Wofford; married Harold Morrison, 1958 (divorced, 1964); children: Harold Ford, Slade Kevin. Education: Howard University, B.A., 1953; Cornell University, M.A., 1955. Memberships: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, National Council on the Arts, Authors Guild (council), Authors' League of America. Addresses: Office: Department of Creative Writing, Princeton University, 185 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ 08544-0001. Agent: International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

NOVELS

• The Bluest Eye, Holt (New York, NY), 1969, reprinted, Plume (New York, NY), 1994, adapted as a play by Lydia R. Diamond, Dramatic (Woodstock, IL), 2007.
• Sula, Knopf (New York, NY), 1973.
• Song of Solomon, Knopf (New York, NY), 1977.
• Tar Baby, Knopf (New York, NY), 1981.
• Beloved, Knopf (New York, NY), 1987, with an introduction by A.S. Byatt, 2006.
• Jazz, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.
• Paradise, Knopf (New York, NY), 1998.
• Love, Knopf (New York, NY), 2003.
• A Mercy, Knopf (New York, NY), 2008.

• Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1992.
• To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton, Writers and Readers (New York, NY), 1995.
• The Dancing Mind (text of Nobel Prize acceptance speech), Knopf (New York, NY), 1996.
• (With Claudia Brodsky Lacour) Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1997.
• Memoirs, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1999.
• Remember: The Journey to School Integration (for children), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2004.
• Toni Morrison: Conversations, edited by Carolyn C. Denard, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2008.
• What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction, edited and with an introduction by Carolyn C. Denard, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2008.

• The Big Box, illustrated by Giselle Potter, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun (New York, NY), 1999.
• The Book of Mean People, illustrated by Pascal Lemaître, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2002.
• The Book of Mean People Journal, illustrated by Pascal Lemaître, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2002.
• The Mirror or the Glass?, Scribner (New York, NY), 2007.
• Peeny Butter Fudge, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2009.
• Little Cloud and Lady Wind, illustrated by Sean Qualls, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2010.
• The Tortoise or the Hare, illustrated by Joe Cepeda, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 2010.

• The Lion or the Mouse? (also see below), Scribner (New York, NY), 2003.
• The Ant or the Grasshopper? (also see below), Scribner (New York, NY), 2003.
• The Poppy or the Snake? (also see below), Scribner (New York, NY), 2004.
• Who's Got Game? Three Fables (contains The Lion or the Mouse?, The Ant or the Grasshopper?, and The Poppy or the Snake), Scribner (New York, NY), 2005.

• André Previn, Four Songs for Soprano, Cello, and Piano, Chester Music (London, England), 1995.
• Richard Danielpour, Spirits in the Well: For Voice and Piano, Associated Music Publishers (New York, NY), 1998.
• Richard Danielpour, Margaret Garner: Opera in Two Acts, Associated Music Publishers (New York, NY), 2005.

• The Black Book (anthology), Random House (New York, NY), 1974, with new foreword, 2009.
• Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1992.
• Toni Cade Bambara, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1996.
• Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton, City Lights Books (San Francisco, CA), 2009.

• Dreaming Emmett (play), first produced in Albany, NY, January 4, 1986.

Also author of lyrics for André Previn's Honey and Rue, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, 1992, and Richard Danielpour's Sweet Talk: Four Songs, 1996.

Contributor of essays and reviews to numerous periodicals, including New York Times Magazine. Contributor to Arguing Immigration: The Debate over the Changing Face of America, edited by Nicolaus Mills, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1994.