Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate, dies aged 88 – [18/02/1931-5/08/2019]

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Fun fact: During the five years it took her to write The Bluest Eye she moved to New York City and started publishing books by Angela Davis, Henry Dumas and Muhammad Ali, but she didn’t tell her colleagues about her own fiction. Speaking to the Paris Review in 1993, Morrison explained that writing was a “private thing”.

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