ANDERSON: Just time for your Parting Shots tonight. We remember the remarkable life of the American author, Toni Morrison, who has now sadly passed away. The decorated novelist, editor and educator, was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize. Morrison was best known for influential works of literature on the black experience, penning roughly a dozen novels. But the most acclaimed among them was "Beloved." About a former slave who kills her own child to ensure it never had to endure the pain of being owned by another human being. Well the book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988. Some of Morrison's other renowned works include "Song of Solomon" and "Sula". In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. The highest honor for an American civilian. Toni Morrison was 88 years old. I am Becky Anderson. That was CONNECT THE WORLD. Thank you for watching.
Nobel-Prize Winning Author Toni Morrison Dead at 88.