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Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio to parents George and Ella Ramah Wofford, novelist Toni Morrison grew up in a working-class family. She received a B.A. from Howard University after majoring in English and minoring in the classics. Wofford earned an M.A. in English from Cornell University and then taught at Howard University and Texas Southern University, before entering the publishing world as an editor at Random House. She married (and later divorced) Harold Morrison and gave birth to sons Ford and Slade Kevin. Morrison taught at Yale, Bard College, Rutgers University and the State University of New York at Albany. She later held the Robert F. Goheen Professorship in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Recognized internationally as a major American writer, Morrison was the author of eleven novels, including The Bluest Eye (1973), the story of a little black girl’s quest for identity and acceptance in a world that privileged whiteness; Sula (1973), which celebrates friendship between women and the complexity of black womanhood; Song of Solomon (1977), which follows its male protagonist, Milkman Dead, on his quest for cultural heritage; and Tar Baby (1981), which explores a love affair between a couple from radically different socio-economic backgrounds. Morrison’s early works received critical acclaim, including National Book Awards nominations and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Song of Solomon.

Morrison’s fifth novel, Beloved (1987), a haunting story about the atrocities of slavery and a black slave mother’s effort to protect her children against its dehumanizing effect through infanticide, won the Pulitzer Prize and was instrumental in her receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In 2006, Beloved, made into a movie starring Oprah Winfrey, was named the greatest work of American fiction in the past twenty five years by The New York Times Book Review.

In her subsequent novels Jazz (1992), Paradise (1998), and Love (2003), Morrison continued her exploration of such themes as friendships between women, quest for personal identity, the complexity of the black community, a celebration of African American history and culture, and the importance of love, the dominant theme in her work, to the human experience.

Morrison has published a play, Dreaming Emmett (1985), a short story, “Recitative” (1982), a series of children’s stories (with her son Slade), a libretto, Margaret Garner, and several non-fiction works, including The Black Book (1974) and a collection of critical essays, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Morrison was named curator for an art exhibit, “Stranger at Home” (“étranger chez soi”) (2006), for the Louvre in Paris, France, where she read from her ninth novel, Mercy.

Toni Morrison passed away on August 5, 2019, in a hospital in The Bronx, New York due to complications from pneumonia. She was 88 years old. She is survived by her son, Harold Ford Morrison, and three grandchildren.

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Barbara Jean McNair (March 4, 1934 – February 4, 2007) was an American singer, theater, television, and film actress. McNair’s career spanned over five decades appearing in television, film, and stage.

McNair’s professional career began in music during the late 1950s, singing in the nightclub circuit. In 1958, McNair released her debut single Till There Was You from Coral Records; which was a commercial success. McNair performed all across the world, touring with Nat King Cole and later appearing in his Broadway stage show “I’m With You” and ” The Merry World of Nat King Cole” in the early 1960s. By the 1970s, McNair gradually changed over to acting in films and television; appearing in films alongside Sidney Poitier such as They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971).

In her later years, McNair returned to performing in nightclubs and on cruise ships. McNair died from throat cancer on February 4, 2007, at age 72.

McNair’s big break came with a win on Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, which led to bookings at The Purple Onion and the Cocoanut Grove. Described by the New York Times as “a gorgeous looking woman with a warm, easy, communicative personality and a voice that can range from softly intense ballads to the edges of gospel”, Barbara soon became a popular headliner and a guest on such television variety shows as The Steve Allen Show, Hullabaloo, The Bell Telephone Hour, and The Hollywood Palace. Among her hit records while recording for the Coral, Signature, Motown, and TEC Recording Studios labels, were “You’re Gonna Love My Baby” and “Bobby”.

In the early 1960s, McNair made several musical shorts for Scopitone, a franchise of coin-operated machines that showed what were the forerunners of today’s music videos. In 1967 McNair traveled with Bob Hope to Southeast Asia to perform for U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. McNair’s acting career began on television, as a guest on series such as Dr. Kildare, The Eleventh Hour, I Spy, Mission: Impossible, Hogan’s Heroes and McMillan and Wife. McNair posed n**e for Pl***oy in the October 1968 issue. She caught the attention of the movie-going public with her much-publicized n**e sequences in the gritty crime drama If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968) opposite Raymond St. Jacques, then donned a nun’s habit alongside Mary Tyler Moore for Change of Habit (1969), Elvis Presley’s last feature film. She portrayed Sidney Poitier’s wife in They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and its sequel, The Organization (1971), and George Jefferson’s deranged ex-girlfriend Yvonne in The Jeffersons (1984).

McNair’s Broadway credits include The Body Beautiful (1958), No Strings (1962, replacing Diahann Carroll), and a revival of The Pajama Game (1973, co-starring with Hal Linden and Cab Calloway). McNair starred in her own 1969 television variety series The Barbara McNair Show, becoming one of the first black women to host her own musical variety show. The show, which was produced in Canada by CTV (at CFTO/Toronto), lasted three seasons in first-run syndication in the United States until 1972.

She married Frederick (Rick) Andrew Manzie, who managed McNair and produced the show with Burt Rosen. The show starred A-list guests including Tony Bennett, Sonny and Cher, The Righteous Brothers, Johnny Mathis, Freda Payne, Mahalia Jackson, Della Reese, Lou Rawls, Rich Little, B.B. King, Ethel Waters, Debbie Reynolds, Lionel Hampton, and The Irish Rovers.

McNair was a headliner at Las Vegas hotels like the Sahara. She also appeared on TV game shows in the 1960s, including You Don’t Say, Hollywood Squares, and The Match Game. She was also a VIP guest on the talk shows of Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop, Mike Douglas, and Merv Griffin. McNair’s recordings include Livin’ End, The Real Barbara McNair, More Today Than Yesterday, Broadway Show Stoppers, A Movie Soundtrack If He Hollers, Let Him Go, I Enjoy Being a Girl, and The Ultimate Motown Collection, a two-CD set with 48 tracks that include her two albums for the label plus a non-album single and B-side and an entire LP that never was released.

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