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Born February 18, 1931, in Lorain, OH
Died August 5, 2019, in New York, NY
Toni Morrison was one of America’s most celebrated and successful novelists. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for her fifth novel, Beloved, and received the National Book Critics Award for Song of Solomon in 1978. After working as an editor at Random House for two decades, she was the Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at the State University of New York at Albany before assuming the Robert Goheen Professorship in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 1989. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.