Nobel Prize Winner<br />Toni Morrison Dead at 88.<br />Toni Morrison died on August 6, at the<br />Montefiore Medical Center in New York. .<br />Her death was confirmed by her publisher,<br />Alfred A. Knopf, in a statement to Twitter.<br />We are profoundly sad to report that Toni<br />Morrison has died at the age of eighty-eight. ‘We<br />die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do<br />language. That may be the measure of our lives.’ , Alfred A. Knopf, via Twitter.<br />In 1993, Morrison was<br />the first black woman to <br />receive the Nobel Prize.<br />She received the award for her<br />work in literature, having written<br />books such as “Beloved” and “Jazz.”.<br />According to ‘Time,’ her writing “illuminated<br />the joys and agonies of black American life.”.<br />Morrison was also awarded the Presidential Medal of<br />Freedom in 2012, from former president Barack Obama. .<br />I remember reading ‘Song of Solomon’ when<br />I was a kid and not just trying to figure out<br />how to write, but also how to be and how to<br />think…Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that<br />kind of moral and emotional intensity that<br />few writers ever attempt, Barack Obama, 2012, via ‘Time’.
