Nonillaah Is Remembering Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison

Nonillaah Is Remembering Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison was the first black woman to receive the prize for literature, which she was awarded in 1993.

She also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 for her novel Beloved, in which a mother makes a tragic choice to murder her baby to save the girl from slavery. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

The author also received honorary degrees from Oxford, Geneva and Harvard, was awarded the Legion d'Honneur in France, and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama, who was one of her notable admirers.