AdvertisementToni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 8807:01Download AudioResumeAugust 06, 2019Karen Grigsby BatesfacebookEmailToni Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Michel Euler/AP)