Nobel Prize Winning Author Toni Morrison Passes Away at 88
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Nobel Prize Winning Author Toni Morrison Passes Away at 88
"We are profoundly sad to report that Toni Morrison has died at the age of eighty-eight. She died last night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York," said publisher Penguin Random House in a statement.
Morrison’s cause of death is unknown, according to NBC News.
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Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, becoming the first African American woman to be honored.
She was awarded the Pell Award by Trinity Rep in Providence in 2001.
In 2012, Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.
Works and Life
She is known for her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved" and "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings."
The novel was later made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover in 1998.
Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio.