Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88: family

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died following a short illness, her family said in a statement on Tuesday. She was 88.

"Although her passing represents a tremendous loss, we are grateful she had a long, well-lived life," they said.

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