Literature
Toni Morrison
1931 – 2019
Howard University, Cornell University. Senior editor at Random House, where she shepherded into print the work of Toni Cade Bambara, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, and Henry Dumas. Author of The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, and seven other novels. Pulitzer Prize, 1988. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993. Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2012.
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