Toni Morrison receives Bellow Award for lifetime achievement

By Hillel ItalieWire Service Correspondent
NEW YORK (AP) – Toni Morrison received a lifetime achievement award Thursday night from the PEN American Center, a ceremony of music and words that ended with a special treat from the guest of honor: An excerpt from a novel in progress.
Hundreds gathered Thursday night at the New School auditorium in Manhattan as the Nobel winner received a prize named for a previous laureate, the $25,000 PEN/Saul Bellow Award. Billed as “Dangerous Work: An