Pulitzer-Winning Author Toni Morrison Passes..

Toni Morrison, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Sula, Song Of Solomon and other works, has died at the age of 88. From Time.com: "Over her six-decade career, she wrote 11 novels, five children’s books, two plays, a song cycle and an opera. She served as an editor and professor, mentoring generations of young writers of color. After being largely ignored as a writer for a decade in the ‘70s, Morrison went on to win accolade after accolade, from the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction." She was the subject of a documentary released last month..