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Also Known As	Chloe Anthony Wofford
Born	February 18, 1931 • Lorain • Ohio
Died	August 5, 2019 (aged 88) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012) • Coretta Scott King Book Awards (2005) • Nobel Prize (1993) • Pulitzer Prize (1988)
Notable Works	“The Book About Mean People” • “A Mercy” • “Beloved” • “God Help the Child” • “Home” • “Jazz” • “Love” • “Paradise” • “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination” • “Please, Louise” • “Song of Solomon” • “Sula” • “The Bluest Eye” • “The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations” • “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”
Movement / Style	Black Arts movement