![]() ![]() Toni Morrison photographed with her sons Slade and Ford at her home, in December 1978. Why can’t art in itself be enough? Must we also use the artist as a token of progressivism?” “I suspect, however, that her prize was not motivated solely by artistic considerations. ![]() “I wish that Toni Morrison, a bedazzling writer and a great human being, had won her prize only for her excellence at stringing words together,” said writer Erica Jong when Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993. She was ghettoized for both her race and her gender. Morrison’s status as one of the great American novelists, full stop, developed late in life: When she first came up, she was considered to be one of the great black women American novelists, who was maybe not in the same league as writers who were white and male. And an enormous part of her literary legacy was the work she did to establish and extend the black American literary canon, both in her own writing and in the work she did as an editor. ![]() Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate who died Monday night at the age of 88, was widely considered to be one of the great living American writers. ![]()
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