Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate, Dies at 88

 

C-SPAN: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison has died. She was 88.

Professor Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first black American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. She was a professor of humanities at Princeton University.

Her books include: Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Paradise, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.

In this 2001 In Depth appearance, she discussed her writings, her life, and the craft of writing.

Click here for the full interview.