UPDATE, with family statement Beloved author Toni Morrison died Monday night. The cause of death was not disclosed, but her family said her passing followed a brief illness. She was 88. Her death w…
secured her status as one of her generations leading lights of both literature and civil rights.
The first female African-American editor in Random House history, Morrison published such groundbreaking writers of color as Gayl Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, Huey P. Newton, Muhammad Ali, and Angela Davis, among others. Her teaching career included positions at Howard University, Yale University, SUNY Purchase, Bard College, Rutgers University, SUNY Albany, and Princeton University, where she retired as Robert F. Goheen Chair in the Humanities in 2006.
“While we would like to thank everyone who knew and loved her, personally or through her work, for their support at this difficult time, we ask for privacy as we mourn this loss to our family. We will share information in the near future about how we will celebrate Toni’s incredible life.” In the documentary, Morrison describes emerging from the steel town of Lorain, Ohio, as a “little black girl” who no one took seriously, the source and motivation for an ambitious and creative mind.seminal work as an editor working with iconic African-American literature and professor emeritus at Princeton University.was adapted for the screen in 1998 by Jonathan Demme, with Oprah Winfrey as co-producer and star.
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