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Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women — through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no other writer in English, died on Monday in the Bronx. She was 88.
Source: Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 - The New York Times