(6 Aug 2019) Readers and writers at Strand Book Store in New York City were saddened to hear of the death of Toni Morrison and remembered her as a literary giant who challenged them to look at the world in new ways.
Uptown in Harlem, the Apollo Theater marquee paid homage to Morrison.
Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, died Monday night at age 88.
Morrison's family issued a statement through Knopf saying she died after a brief illness.
Few authors rose in such rapid, spectacular style. She was nearly 40 when her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published.
By her early 60s, after just six novels, she had become the first black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, praised in 1993 by the Swedish academy for her "visionary force" and for her delving into "language itself, a language she wants to liberate" from categories of black and white.
In 2012, Barack Obama awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Morrison helped raise American multiculturalism to the world stage and helped uncensor her country's past, unearthing the lives of the unknown and the unwanted, those she would call "the unfree at the heart of the democratic experiment."
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