Toni Morrison , considered by many to be among the most important author of the past century , died on Monday , August 5 at geezerhood 88,NPRreports . The author of such books asBeloved , Song of Solomon , andThe Bluest Eyewas known for spotlighting the opprobrious American experience in her employment , and she was the first contraband woman to receive a Nobel Prize for literature .
assume in Ohio in 1931 , Morrison started compose professionally in the 1970s . Her debut novel , The Bluest Eye , is hailed as a modern classic today , but it didn’tsell wellwhen it was first publish . Morrison found more success with her come after - up works : Her second novel , Sula , was name for theNational Book Award , and her next book , Song of Solomon , won the National Book Critics Circle Award .
Beloved , Morrison ’s 1987 novel based on the straight report of an enslave pitch-black woman , is perhaps her good - known work . After it fail to win either the National Book Award or the National Book Critics Circle Award , a group of black critics and writers , includingMaya Angelouand Alice Walker , published a instruction knock the lapse . The al-Qur’an was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fable a few months later . In 1993 , the Nobel committee recognized Morrison ’s achievements by grant her the Nobel Prize for lit .
Along with her mastery of the craft of written material , Toni Morrison has been praise for add black tale to the overwhelmingly lily-white mankind of literature . " Being a grim charwoman writer is not a shallow plaza but a rich post to pen from , " she toldThe New Yorkerin 2003 . " It does n’t limit my imagination ; it expands it . It ’s richer than being a white male writer because I have a go at it more and I ’ve receive more . ”
Morrison snuff it at Montefiore Medical Center in New York follow a abbreviated illness , according to a assertion released by her publisher . She issurvived byher son and grandchild .
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