Pulitzer Prize winning novelist TONI MORRISON. At next week's national book awards ceremony she will receive a special medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. In 1992, at the time of this interview she had a new novel "Jazz," (published by Knopf) and a book of essays, "Playing in the Dark," (by Harvard). Her novel, "Beloved," won the Pulitzer prize. She's written five novels in all. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/24/92).
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