Toni Walker

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Author
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:National_Book_Foundation
gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
gptkbp:associatedAct Civil rights activism
Literary_activism
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction
gptkbp:birthDate February 12, 1944
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Cleveland,_Ohio
gptkbp:children gptkb:Rebecca_Walker
gptkbp:deathDate August 5, 2019
gptkbp:education gptkb:Howard_University
gptkb:Cornell_University
gptkbp:genre Fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Toni Walker
gptkbp:influenced Feminist literature
Contemporary_African_American_literature
gptkbp:influences gptkb:James_Baldwin
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
gptkbp:knownFor Themes of identity and community
Exploring_African_American_culture
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters_Award
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
gptkb:Anisfield-Wolf_Book_Award
gptkb:Langston_Hughes_Medal
gptkb:National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_California,_Berkeley
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Michigan
Honorary_Doctorate_from_Yale_University
Honorary_Doctorate_from_Smith_College
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Virginia
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Florida
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Pennsylvania
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_California,_Los_Angeles
Honorary_Doctorate_from_Princeton_University
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Wisconsin-Madison
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana-Champaign
Black_Writers'_Conference_Award
Honorary_Doctorate_from_University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill
gptkbp:notableWork The Color Purple
gptkbp:occupation Novelist
gptkbp:residence gptkb:New_York_City
gptkb:San_Francisco
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:David_B._Walker
gptkbp:website www.tonimorrison.com