In late December of 1993, the same year Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature, a cinder jumped from the fireplace and the historic house began to burn. In the late 1970s, she acquired a property that would become part of her legacy: a converted boathouse on the banks of the Hudson River in the community of Grand View-on-Hudson, purchased for $120,000. At some point, many of the homes on the street where the sisters grew up were demolished.īy signing up, you agree to TheRealDeal Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. While Morrison left the Midwest for Howard University in her teen years, her sister, Lois, continued living in Lorain throughout her life. She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a town that would figure into the setting of her breakout debut, The Bluest Eye, published in 1970. Morrison died on August 5, 2019, from complications due to pneumonia at a hospital in the Bronx. At the same time, interest about the places the Nobel laureate lived throughout her life dates back decades – helped along by the strong role that “place” plays in her novels as well as the details of her personal residential history. At the time, she was doing press for her latest book, “Home,” and its title generated countless inquiries into what the word meant to Morrison personally. And I’d hate to lose them,” Toni Morrison told a reporter for The Telegraph in 2012.
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