Toni Morrison, who spoke in the Bryan Series in March 2007, received the first lifetime achievement award presented by the Norman Mailer Writers Colony Oct. 20.
The awards dinner in New York City attracted literary lions such as former Bryan Series speakers Salman Rushdie and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The writers colony is a nonprofit organization founded earlier this year, located at the home of the late author and Village Voice founder in Provincetown, Mass. It aims to help nurture writers in the spirit of Mailer, who died in November 2007 at the age of 84.
Among her many awards, Morrison is one of five Nobel Prize winners to speak in the Bryan Series including Paul Krugman, who will present a talk on global economic challenges Nov. 3.
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