Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Toni Morrison, RIP


Picture from the NYT 6 August 2019
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/toni-morrison-towering-novelist-of-the-black-experience-dies-at-88/ar-AAFqHBy

First black woman from anywhere to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and winner of a Pulitzer, also.

I need to re/re-read some of her work. 
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