One of Cornell’s most prominent alumnae, Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, died on Monday night, her publisher confirmed on Twitter. She died at Montefiore Medical Center in New York after a brief illness.

Author Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died, her publisher confirmed to PEOPLE. She was 88. “We are profoundly sad to report that Toni Morrison has died at the age of ...

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