USPS Honors Toni Morrison with Forever Stamp

The United States Postal Service unveiled the caller Toni Morrison everlastingly stamp past Tuesday astatine a ceremonial held astatine Princeton University. Morrison, 1 of the astir influential modern American writers, was a prof astatine Princeton for astir 20 years, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Nobel Prize successful Literature earlier she passed distant successful 2019 astatine helium property of 88. Through spellbinding and lyrical prose, she explored the lives of Black Americans, a radical of radical who were mostly overlooked successful lit astatine the clip her books were published.

In a missive work astatine the ceremony, Barack and Michelle Obama said “Toni told cardinal truths astir our state and the quality condition, but she didn’t conscionable bespeak what was true. She helped generations of Black Americans reimagine what was possible.”

The photograph featured in the stamp was taken by Deborah Feingold for a Time magazine screen successful 1997.