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Toni Morrison’s moral clarity ‘soothed restless souls’

August 6, 2019

American novelist Toni Morrison died at the age of 88, her publisher announced Tuesday. Morrison received a master's in English from Cornell University in 1955 and was the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Her work, which centered around issues of black identity and race, was “masterful, purposeful, precise and challenging,” says Noliwe Rooks, professor in the Africana Studies & Research Center.

Arts & Humanities
Professor Rooks is an associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies