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Lorain County Commissioners have declared Feb. 18 Toni Morrison Day, coinciding with the late author's birthday. The Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning writer grew up in Lorain and worked for the library there as a page in the 1940's in the Carnegie Building, according to Lorain Public Library System Director Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz.
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Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.