Mimy Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Rest In Power Toni Morrison was an American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators kimi Posted August 7, 2019 Moderators Share Posted August 7, 2019 Thanks Mimy... heard this on the morning news today. A life well lived. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Txunamy Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 💔 Heartbroken. Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou inspired me a great deal. There would always be a rainbow in my clouds for the people I have loved and lost.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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