Photos: Toni Morrison through the years

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Photos: Toni Morrison through the years

Images of late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison through the years.

Toni Morrison attends Art & Social Activism, a discussion on Broadway with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison and Sonia Sanchez on June 15, 2016 in New York.

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 27: Misty Copeland and Toni Morrison backstage at the 92nd Street Y Presents: In Conversation With Misty Copeland And Amy Astley at 92nd Street Y on April 27, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)

Toni Morrison speaks during the Hay Festival on May 28, 2014 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.

Toni Morrison is presented with a Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama on May 29, 2012 at the White House.

Toni Morrison promotes "Home" at Barnes & Noble Union Square on May 14, 2012 in New York City.

Toni Morrison speaks during An Evening with Toni Morrison at Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University on September 21, 2011 in Washington, DC.

Honorary Degree Recipient Professor Toni Morrison speaks during the 245th Rutgers University Commencement at Rutgers Stadium on May 15, 2011 in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Toni Morrison (R) shares a laugh with Oprah Winfrey during the annual Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner October 20, 2010, in Chicago.

Toni Morrison receives the Honor Medal of The City of Paris from Christophe Girard (R) at Mairie de Paris on November 4, 2010 in Paris.

Pulitzer prize winning author, Toni Morrison, 77, is photographed in her New York apartment in 2009.

Playwright/Author/Actor Stew and Novelist/Author/Professor Toni Morrison backstage on Opening Night for The New Broadway Musical "Passing Strange" on February 28, 2008 in New York City.

Agnes Varda, writer Toni Morrisson, president of the jury, director Emir Kusturica, Salma Hayek and Nandita Das at the photocall of the jury during the 58th Cannes Film Festival.

Glenn Close, Toni Morrison, Peter Sellars, Julianne Moore and Paul Thomas Anderson pose together at the Risk-Takers In The Arts honors benefit on April 23, 2003.

Author Toni Morrison receives a standing ovation following her commencement address to Wellesley College graduates.

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 04: Elton John, Toni Morrison and Jessye Norman (l. to r.) get together at Riverside Church to promote the Jessye Norman Sings for the Healing of AIDS concert to be held at the church. (Photo by Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Maya Angelou with Toni Morrison at a party in honor of poet Rita Dove & Morrison, at Angelou's Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home.

Toni Morrison smiles in her office at Princeton University while being interviewed by reporters after hearing that she had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Author Toni Morrison at home in 1993.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison photographed in New York City in 1979.

Novelist Toni Morrison photographed with her sons Slade and Ford at her home in December 1978.

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Toni Morrison attends Art & Social Activism, a discussion on Broadway with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison and Sonia Sanchez on June 15, 2016 in New York.

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