Toni Morrison: a life in pictures
With novels including Beloved and The Bluest Eye, the acclaimed author who dramatised the African American experience with fierce passion for five decades, has died aged 88
Tue 6 Aug 2019 18.03 BST Last modified on Wed 7 Aug 2019 08.38 BST
Toni Morrison, photographed in 1977. She was born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931 Photograph: Snap/Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt home with her sons Slade And Fordin 1978 Photograph: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPhotographed writing in New York in 1979 Photograph: Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWith a copy of her Beloved, for which she won the Pulitzer prize for in 1988 Photograph: David Bookstaver/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrinceton University students congratulate her in 1993 Photograph: The New York Post via Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPresident Bill Clinton embraces Morrison after awarding her a National Humanities medal in 2000 Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt Maya Angelou’s party Photograph: Will McIntyre/The Life Images Collection via Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterReceiving the Nobel prize for literature from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in the Concert Hall in Stockholm Photograph: AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterBeing awarded the Officier of the Légion d’honneur during a ceremony at the Culture Ministry in Paris in 2010 Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/Reuters
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAttending an HBO afterparty at Four Seasons Restaurant NYC in 2010 Photograph: Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWith Oprah Winfrey at the Carl Sandburg literary awards dinner at the University of Illinois in Chicago, 2010 Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/FilmMagic
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterReceiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012 Photograph: Owen Sweeney/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPortrayed by a graffiti artist during the unveiling ceremony of a memorial bench marking the abolition of slavery in Paris Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSpeaking at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival in Wales in 2014 Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPhotographed in her New York apartment for the Guardian in 2015 Photograph: Tim Knox/The Guardian
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