| American writer Toni Morrison won the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, the eighth woman and the first black woman to receive the prize. Morrison writes about African American women, celebrating their strength and vitality and revealing their struggles. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved (1987), which explored the effects of slavery on a former slave living in Ohio after the American Civil War. Other works, including Song of Solomon (1977) and Jazz (1992), focus on the powerful cultural heritage of African Americans. |
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