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Prolific Writer Toni Morrison Dies At 88

In this April 5, 1994 file photo, Toni Morrison holds an orchid at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. The Nobel Prize-winning author has died. (Kathy Willens/AP File Photo)
In this April 5, 1994 file photo, Toni Morrison holds an orchid at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. The Nobel Prize-winning author has died. (Kathy Willens/AP File Photo)

Toni Morrison‘s 1987 novel, “Beloved,” won the Pulitzer and the American Book Award and was adapted into a film. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88 years old. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with NPR arts Correspondent Lynn Neary about the author’s life and work.

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