id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-478 Toni Morrison - Wikipedia .html text/html 13065 2008 74 One of the first books she worked on was the groundbreaking Contemporary African Literature (1972), a collection that included work by Nigerian writers Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and South African playwright Athol Fugard.[9] She fostered a new generation of Afro-American writers,[9] including poet and novelist Toni Cade Bambara, radical activist Angela Davis, Black Panther Huey Newton[21] and novelist Gayl Jones, whose writing Morrison discovered. Forty-eight black critics and writers,[44][45] among them Maya Angelou, protested the omission in a statement that The New York Times published on January 24, 1988.[20][46][47] "Despite the international stature of Toni Morrison, she has yet to receive the national recognition that her five major works of fiction entirely deserve," they wrote.[8] Two months later, Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[39] It also won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[48] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-478.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-478.txt