The Resume

(February 18, 1931-August 5, 2019)
Birth name is Chloe Anthony Wofford
Wrote 'The Bluest Eye,' 'Sula,' 'Song of Soloman,' 'Tar Baby,' 'Beloved,' 'Jazz,' 'Paradise' and 'Love'
Won Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987)
Won Nobel Prize for Literature (1993)

Why she might be annoying:

The characters in her books have emotional and psychological problems.
Oprah Winfrey selected his book 'The Bluest Eye' for her book club (2000).
She believes O.J. Simpson is innocent.
She claims black people have historically been used as a buffer to 'prevent class wars.'
She is divorced.
She goes by her middle name, which is Anthony.

Why she might not be annoying:

She has used her gift for story telling to chronicle the history of African-Americans in the United States.
Her novels deal with social issues such as racism, poverty and the public school system.
She was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
She taught at Texas Southern, Yale, Bard College, Rutgers and Princeton University.
She was a senior editor at Random House for twenty years.

Credit: D

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 100 Greatest Moms [Redbook] (Ranked: 50)
• 100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books [2000-09] (Ranked: 26)
• 100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books [2000-09] (Ranked: 72)
• 100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books [2000-09] (Ranked: 15)
• About.com Top 100 Women of History [2009] (Ranked: 44)
• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
• Cannes Film Festival Jury Members (Ranked: 2005)
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [February] (Ranked: 2181931)
• Civil Rights Activists
• D's Profiles [Series 01]
• Ebony Magazine's 100 Most Fascinating Black Women of the 20th Century [March 1999]
• Ebony Magazine's 55 Most Intriguing Blacks [2000]
• Ellen Cleghorne Impersonations
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008] (Ranked: 3)
• Glamour Women of the Year - 18th Annual [2007]
• I Attended Cornell
• I Attended Howard University
• I Died in 2019 (Ranked: 88)
• I Earned a Doctorate
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Influenced by Joseph Campbell
• Known By a Middle Name
• Ladies Home Journal's 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century
• Mental Floss' 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years [2009] (Ranked: 21)
• Ms. Magazine's Women of the Year [1987]
• National Women's Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2020)
• New Jersey Hall of Fame (Ranked: 2007)
• New Statesman's 50 Heroes for Our Time [2006] (Ranked: 48)
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 51)
• Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball Attendees [May 2005]
• Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball Honorees [May 2005]
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 1996)
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 1998)
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 2000)
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 2002)
• Oprah's Favorite Things (Ranked: 2016)
• People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People [1977]
• Profiles 13001-13250 (Ranked: 13059)
• Teachers
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]
• Time’s 100 Women of the Year [1920-2020] (Ranked: 1993)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 11 Votes: 27.27% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 83 Votes: 48.19% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 25 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 41 Votes: 48.78% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 23 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 59 Votes: 50.85% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 80 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 65 Votes: 52.31% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 146 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 205 Votes: 53.17% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 408 Votes: 45.34% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 240 Votes: 41.67% Annoying