Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison Dies [Condolences]

Toni Morrison

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison Dies [Condolences]

Very sad news. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, Morrison was a novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University.

She won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved (1987). The novel was adapted into a film of the same name (starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover) in 1998. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In 1996, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities. She was honored with the 1996 National Book Foundation’s Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Morrison wrote the libretto for a new opera, Margaret Garner, first performed in 2005. On May 29, 2012, President Barack Obama presented Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

According to reports, Morrison passed away of natural causes on August 5th. No additional details have been released.