Toni Morrison is Dead
Toni Morrison is Dead Renown American novelist and Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison, died at the age of eighty eight on Monday, 5 August 2019. According to her publisher, Alfred A Knopf, Morrison gave up the ghost at the Montefiore Medical Centre in New York on Monday night. Her family also issued a statement through the publisher that she died after a brief illness. ‘Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,’ the family announced. ‘She was an extremely devoted mother, grandmother, and aunt who revelled in being with her family and friends. The consummate writer who treasured the written word, whether her own, her students or others, she read voraciously and was most at home when writing.’ Morrison is the author of eleven novels, as well as a number of children’s books, plays and collections of non-fiction. Her debut novel, The Bluest Eye , was published in 1970, when she was thirty-nine.