Toni Morrison, celebrated novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died.
8:37 AM PDT, August 6, 2019Toni Morrison, celebrated novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died, multiple outlets have confirmed. , she died on Aug. 5, 2019, at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York City “after a brief illness.” She was 88 years old.
“Toni Morrison’s working life was spent in the service of literature: writing books, reading books, editing books, teaching books. I can think of few writers in American letters who wrote with more humanity or with more love for language than Toni,” Sonny Mehta, the current editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf,. “Her narratives and mesmerizing prose have made an indelible mark on our culture. Her novels command and demand our attention.
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