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Toni Morrison on Beloved

WATCH: Toni Morrison on capturing a mother's 'compulsion' to nurture in 'Beloved'

“I am convinced that the more I am well-known, the better known I am, the easier it is for other writers to come along,” says Toni Morrison in this 1987 interview with PBS NewsHour’s Charlayne Hunter-Gault on her success as an author and what inspired her novel Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

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1987
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