The Pulitzer Prize–winning author who was also the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature is Toni Morrison.

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  • Name: Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford).
  • Major prizes:
    • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for her novel Beloved.
* Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, becoming the first Black woman to receive this honor.
  • Known for: Powerful novels about Black American life, including The Bluest Eye , Song of Solomon , and Beloved.

Her work is celebrated for its poetic language and its deep exploration of history, memory, and the Black experience in America.

TL;DR: It was Toni Morrison, a Pulitzer-winning novelist whose Beloved and other works led to her historic 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Black woman laureate.

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