It's hard to overstate the influence of Toni Morrison's work — not only as a novelist but as an editor and teacher
Toni Morrison. Photo: Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images Toni Morrison, the best-selling author and first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died Monday night at the age of 88. Morrison was the author of 11 novels, including Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
It’s hard to overstate the influence of Morrison’s work — not only as a novelist but as an editor and teacher as well. In 1988, after the publication of Beloved, more than two dozen black writers, including Maya Angelou and Alice Walker, published an open letter in the New York Times protesting the fact that Morrison had not yet won the Pulitzer or the National Book Award.
Here are Angelou, Angela Davis, Tayari Jones, and more discussing what Morrison has meant to them over the years.“Whenever I read Morrison, I am astonished by the idiosyncrasies on display.
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