American literary icon Toni Morrison has passed away

BREAKING: Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, best known for her renowned novel "Beloved," has passed away, according to the Associated Press. https://t.co/TtPvqAlkBj pic.twitter.com/iDryLzdxK7

— ABC News (@ABC) August 6, 2019

• Morrison published her first book, The Bluest Eye, in 1970


• She is perhaps best known for her 1987 novel, Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize


• She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 becoming the first black woman to win


• Her most recent novel was God Help the Child, published in 2015


• She was 88