The death has been announced - at the age of 88 - of the wonderful writer, Toni Morrison, Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel Laureate, who chronicled the lives of African-Amercians, especially African American women, with compelling insight, searing honesty, and lyrical prose in a series of extraordinary books.
Morrison, who had also worked as an editor at Random House and later, as an educator at Princeton, started writing as a single mother, upon realising that the books she wanted to read - and the voice she wished to see in print - didn't exist, and so she wrote it, and by so doing, she was instrumental in bringing the often difficult and fraught lives and challenging experiences of African American women to a wider audience.
RIP Toni Morrison.
Morrison, who had also worked as an editor at Random House and later, as an educator at Princeton, started writing as a single mother, upon realising that the books she wanted to read - and the voice she wished to see in print - didn't exist, and so she wrote it, and by so doing, she was instrumental in bringing the often difficult and fraught lives and challenging experiences of African American women to a wider audience.
RIP Toni Morrison.
