#RestInPower: Remembering The Celebs We Lost In 2019 - Page 13
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison, the prolific author who garnered a Nobel Peace Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize, died on August 5 at the age of 88. Morrison died from complications with pneumonia at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Morrison’s writing career spanned over 50 years across different genres including fiction, non-fiction and essays. Her groundbreaking books include, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz, Love, and A Mercy. Morrison also was a long-term professor at Princeton University in New Jersey. Prior to her life as a writer, Morrison was one of the only Black female book editors at Random House who helped hone the writing voices of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement including Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayle Jones, and Muhammad Ali.
