Lynda Koolish
Portrait of Toni Morrison
Gelatin silver print, before 2001
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Portrait of Toni Morrison
The author Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was one of literature’s most powerful advocates for libraries and against censorship. In 1993 Morrison became the first Black American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, noted for giving “life to an essential aspect of American reality.” At the same time, her works regularly appear on the annual list published by the American Library Association (ALA) of the top 10 most challenged books. Her novel Beloved takes as its inspiration the true story of an enslaved woman who killed her infant daughter to spare her a future of enslavement. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987—and appeared on the ALA’s list in 2006 and 2012.
: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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