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Author Toni Morrison attends a conference at the Guadalajara's University in Guadalajara City, Mexico on Nov. 25, 2005. The pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature died on Aug. 5 at age 88. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

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Oprah Winfrey speaks during the Celebration of the Life of Toni Morrison, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. Morrison died in August at age 88. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Winfrey, Coates among speakers at tribute to Toni Morrison

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Winfrey, Coates to speak at upcoming Toni Morrison tribute

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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2012, file photo, U.S. novelist Toni Morrison applauds as she attends the America Festival at the U.S. embassy, in Paris. A book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December 2019. “The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom” will draw from her whole body of work, including such celebrated novels as “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon.” The foreword is by Zadie Smith, adapted from a tribute she wrote soon after the Nobel laureate died in August 2019 at age 88. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December

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‘For Toni’: Baltimore artist’s mural honors ‘Beloved’ author

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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2005 file photo, author Toni Morrison listens to Mexicos Carlos Monsivais during the Julio Cortazar professorship conference at the Guadalajara's University in Guadalajara City, Mexico. After Morrison died this week at 88, people around the world, particularly black women, mourned the loss of the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner and praised her for opening a literary door into their world _ and reflecting their pains and triumphs in her work. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File)

Morrison appreciated for giving black women a voice

By JESSE J. HOLLAND - Associated Press

FILE - This March 4, 2019 file photo shows Oprah Winfrey at the presentation of Stella McCartney's ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 fashion collection in Paris. Winfrey praised her late friend and idol, Toni Morrison, hailing the best-selling author’s “confidence and self-assuredness and nobility.” Winfrey and Morrison knew each other for more than 20 years, dating back to when Winfrey was so determined to learn the author’s unlisted phone number that she called the local fire department. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Oprah Winfrey praises her late friend and idol Toni Morrison

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FILE - In this Sept. 1987 file photo, author Toni Morrison poses with a copy of her book &quot;Beloved&quot; in New York. Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in &quot;Beloved,&quot; ''Song of Solomon&quot; and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019 at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.(AP Photo/David Bookstaver, File)

Toni Morrison was a ‘literary mother’ to countless writers

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2005 file photo, author Toni Morrison listens to Mexicos Carlos Monsivais during the Julio Cortazar professorship conference at the Guadalajara's University in Guadalajara City, Mexico. The Nobel Prize-winning author has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019 at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File)

World mourns the death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison

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In this May 29, 2012, file photo, author Toni Morrison receives her Medal of Freedom award during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Nobel Prize-winning author has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Toni Morrison dead at 88

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 5, 1994 file photo, Toni Morrison as she holds an orchid at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. The Nobel Prize-winning author has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019 at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Barack Obama, Beyonce, others react to Toni Morrison’s death

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Writer Toni Morrison remembered, celebrated in Chicago

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Notable quotes by Toni Morrison, who died Monday at age 88

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In this Nov. 5, 2007, photo Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison appears at the 18th annual Glamour Women of the Year awards in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) **FILE**

Arts and letters academy awards gold medal to Toni Morrison

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Oprah Winfrey waves the audience during a tribute to Nelson Mandela and promoting gender equality event at University of Johannesburg in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Oprah Winfrey praises Toni Morrison at Manhattan dinner gala

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 29, 2012 file photo, author Toni Morrison receives her Medal of Freedom award during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is scheduled to be presented with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Emerson-Thoreau Medal on Thursday evening, April 6, 2017, at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison honored with literary award

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FILE- This Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 file photo shows author Toni Morrison speaking during an interview about her latest book &quot;Home,&quot; in New York. Morrison has received a lifetime achievement award from the PEN American Center. Hundreds of people gathered Thursday night, Oct. 27, 2016, at the New School auditorium in Manhattan to recognize Morrison. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Toni Morrison receives Bellow award for lifetime achievement

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘God Help the Child’

By Claire Hopley

FILE - In this Jan. 29 , 2013, file photo, author Salman Rushdie attends a promotional event of “Midnight’s Children” in Mumbai, India. Rushdie, Toni Morrison and two members of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot were among the featured speakers at a black-tie event championing freedom of expression. PEN American Center, the literary human rights organization, hosted its annual gala Monday, May 5, 2014, at the American Museum of Natural History. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)

Rushdie, Pussy Riot featured at literary gala

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