#TalentTuesday: BLACKTOPIA remembers novelist TONI MORRISON (R.I.P.)

American novelist, editor, educator and mother Toni Morrison, who chronicled the African American experience in fiction for over five decades, has passed at the age of 88.

In a statement on Tuesday, her family and publisher Knopf confirmed that the author died in Montefiore Medical Center in New York on Monday night after a short illness.

Achievements

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.

Below is a few of Toni Morrison's award winning and best selling books.  

The Bluest Eye 

Link:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307278441/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=produ0f7-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0307278441&linkId=4cc2c364d8d3e68a8e2f290b2453955d

Song of Solomon

Link:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140003342X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=produ0f7-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=140003342X&linkId=2f4d110c220d551c622a4f8efd706d76

Tar Baby

Link:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033446/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=produ0f7-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1400033446&linkId=4540567b842c4172ddaf6723fb687e9e

Beloved

Link:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400033411/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=produ0f7-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1400033411&linkId=6a855dd5a9f9d4bd8cfc1c9b00d0016d

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