Thirty years ago, on October 7, 1993, Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Morrison was the first Black woman to receive a Nobel Prize in any category. In the announcement, the Nobel ...

One of Cornell’s most prominent alumnae, Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, died on Monday night, her publisher confirmed on Twitter. She died at Montefiore Medical Center in New York after a brief illness.

PRINCETON, New Jersey (WABC) -- Novelist Toni Morrison, who was a professor at Princeton University, became the first Black American and only eighth woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

NEW YORK -- Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," "Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by ...

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died following a brief illness, her family said in a statement Tuesday. She was 88. Nobel Prize winning ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by ...

In describing the literary greatness of Toni Morrison—winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature, the first awarded to an African-American woman—the Nobel Foundation said that Morrison “in novels ...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who passed away Monday at age 88, leaves behind a legacy of powerful works. Morrison's life and works were chronicled in a documentary that had a limited release this ...

TRENTON, N.J. (WPVI) -- Flags in New Jersey are flying at half-staff Friday to honor the life and legacy of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. New Jersey's acting governor signed the order for all state ...

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Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the ...