BIOGRAPHY OF OPRAH WINFREY

Biography of Oprah Winfrey

Biography of Oprah Winfrey

American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After a distressed adolescence in a small farming community where she was sexually abused by a number of male relatives and friends of her mother, Vernita, she moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon, a barber and man business. She entered the Tennessee State University in 1971 and began working in radio and television in Nashville. In 1976, the show became a hit and Winfrey stayed with it for eight ...