Toni Morrison dies at age 88. The Nobel laureate transfigured American literature.
(Washington Post Style)

Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who conjured a black girl longing for blue eyes, a slave mother who kills her child to save her from bondage, and other indelible characters who helped transfigure a literary canon long closed to African Americans, died last night in New York, her publisher said. This is a developing story. [...]