Obituary : Remembering The Life, Times Of Toni Morrison

The international literary community is still mourning Toni Morrison, an African-American novelist who died on August 5, 2019 in New York, USA at the age of 88. The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC cited the family as saying Morrison, known at birth on February 18, 1931 as Chloe Ardelia Wofford, died “following a short illness.” 
Her long-time editor, Robert Gottlieb from Knopf Publishers, said: “She was a great woman and a great writer, and I don't know which I will miss more.” Former US President, Barack Obama, described Toni Morrison as “a national treasure” who was “a good storyteller, as captivating in person as she was on the page… What a gift to breathe the same air as her, if only for a while!”  Obama said.
Author of 11 novels, Morrison got married to Jamaican-born architect, Harold Morrison in 1958, before divorcing a few years after. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Morrison once said: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. Tha...