Celebrated author Toni Morrison has passed away, aged 88. Her death was announced by her publisher, and confirmed by her family, saying that she passed away at Montefiore Medical Centre, surrounded by friends and family following complications from pneumonia.
Morrison produced 11 novels across her career, including Song of Solomon, Beloved, and God Help The Child. She became the first black woman in America to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was heavily praised for her work 'exploring the experience of black women' and 'black identity in America'. She later went on to become a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
Literary agent Lynn Nesbit, who worked with Morrison during her early career said, 'She had an amazing presence. She was a terrific writer and an amazing stylist who influenced whole generations.'
Barack Obama, who presented her with the Presidential Medal For Freedom in 2012 paid tribute to the author saying, 'Toni Morrison was a national treasure, as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. Her writing was beautiful, meaningful to our conscience and our moral imagination. What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while.'
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