Remembering the Peerless Toni Morrison
The author, teacher, Nobel laureate, and grande dame of American letters has died at the age of 88.
Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and peerless American author, died yesterday at the age of 88. Since the publication of her debut novel, , in 1970, Morrison has been established as one of the most powerful and distinct voices in literature, a lyrical chronicler and witness to the African American experience. Her 1987 novel, , the story of a former enslaved person who is haunted by the child she killed, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988, and was the best work of American fiction of the late 20th century by in 2006.
