<span>William Jefferson Blythe III</span>
<span>The lead character in the narrative — the character who faces the ... drive the plot, or does he or she serve as little more than a background <span>character</span></span>
Answer: Born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, editor and professor.
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