Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Beloved,” has died at 88, her publisher confirms. Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize, which she garnered in 1993.
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Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Beloved,” has died at 88, her publisher confirms. Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize, which she garnered in 1993.