The celebration was open to the public and drew more than 3,000 people. Toni Morrison, who died this year at 88, published 11 novels and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

‘She Saved Us’: Mourners Pay Tribute to Toni Morrison

The Nobel laureate, who died in August, was honored at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York. Speakers included Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis and Fran Lebowitz.

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