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News March 11, 2016

Toni Morrison draws a crowd at Harvard

Scores waited in line on Wednesday, March 9,  to attend Morrison’s lecture at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre.

The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of acclaimed novels including “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon,” and “The Bluest Eye,” Morrison, now 85, spoke from a wheelchair at the front of the stage, and received a standing ovation before she even began.

Here's The Boston Globe story.

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