Peak Performer Profile: Toni Morrison

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“Toni Morrison’s novels invite the reader to partake at many levels, and at varying degrees of complexity. Still, the most enduring impression they leave is of empathy, compassion with one’s fellow human beings,” said Professor Sture Allén as he presented Toni Morrison with the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1993. At www.nobelprize.org , select the Literature section and read about the many laureates who have received this highest honor. You can also listen to acceptance speeches and Nobel lectures, including Morrison’s eloquent prose, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”