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Literary icon Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, dies at 88
8/07/2019
By | Joe Wilensky
Nobel Prize-winning author and alumna Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, died Monday, Aug. 5, in New York City. She was 88.
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