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Toni Morrison — This Day in Women's History

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American · Literature

Toni Morrison

1931 – 2019

Novelist and Nobel laureate whose work centered Black American experience with lyrical force.

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Oct071993
Literature
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
First African-American woman to win the Nobel in Literature.
Nobel Prize — Toni Morrison