# Toni Morrison Dies At 88

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toni-morrison-dies-at-88/838239>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toni-morrison-dies-at-88/838239 "2019-08-06T14:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toni-morrison-dies-at-88/838239/1 "2019-08-06T14:22:33Z")

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Not sure whether this is the right forum, but seems this should be noted someplace here.

[Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/06/542391535/toni-morrison-whose-soaring-novels-were-rooted-in-black-lives-dies-at-88)

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> Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, according to her publisher Penguin Random House. Her work focused on African-American life and culture, and she dominated an industry in which depictions of black life were often limited and rooted in stereotype.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toni-morrison-dies-at-88/838239/2 "2019-08-06T14:30:49Z")

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Very sad news.