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Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88
By: Karen Grigsby Bates | NPR
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Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.