AJC.com News August 6, 2019 Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate, dies at 88 Author, Nobel Prize laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison died Monday, according to a statement from her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. She was 88. The cause of her death was not immediately known. Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio, with the name Chloe Anthony Wofford on Feb. 18, 1931. In 1993, she became the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize. The Swedish academy hailed her use of language and her "visionary force." Her novel "Beloved," in which a mother makes a tragic choice to murder her baby to save the girl from slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. SANDRA M. PHOENIX HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org sphoenix@hbculibraries.org Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/