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Anything bolded outside of the sub headers (minus the second one which I added) are my contributions.

Early years
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, to Ramah (née Willis) and George Wofford in the attic of their suburban home. She 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 Georgia. When he was about 15, white people lynched two black businessmen who lived on his street. Morrison said: "He never told us that he’d seen bodies. But he had seen them. And that was too traumatic, I think, for him." Soon after the lynching, George Wofford moved to the racially integrated town of Lorain, Ohio, in hopes of escaping racism and securing gainful employment in Ohio's burgeoning industrial economy. He worked odd jobs and as a welder for U.S. Steel. Ramah Wofford was a homemaker and a devout member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Style
'''Many of Morrison's works are inspired by African American folklore and often include elements of the supernatural, and because of this has been compared to fellow Literary Nobel recipient Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Her writing is more often linked to those of William Faulkner, however, since both like to paint dreary images of racially intolerant America. She emphasizes how the years of black suffering caused by human impulses is only partially redeemed.'''

Tone
'''Morrison's works are often bleak and relentless with depressing undertones. This is best exemplified in her most popular novel Beloved in which the main character mercifully kills her infant daughter in fear of her living a treacherous life as a slave. The spirit of the infant continues to haunt the main character and her remaining daughter in ferocious fashion. Not only does the mother feel an abject sense of guilt toward killing her baby, but she is then punished for doing so.'''

Documentary films
Morrison was the subject of a film entitled Imagine – Toni Morrison Remembers, directed by Jill Nicholls and shown on BBC1 television on July 15, 2015, in which Morrison talked to Alan Yentob about her life and work. '''She goes into her publishing history along with the criticisms received by both the public and her own family. The interview also features select childhood anecdotes from Morrison's memory. It then goes into moments from her editing career and the people she met and formed relationships with like Muhammad Ali.'''