Description
Write a paraphrase that avoids plagiarism. Your paraphrase can be as long as the excerpt you have chosen but should not duplicate any phrasing from the excerpt. If you must, you can quote up to three words in a phrase.
The paraphrase was taken from :
In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and thus became the first African American and only the eighth woman ever to win the award. According to Maureen O’Brien in Publishers Weekly, Morrison said, “What is most wonderful for me personally is to know that the Prize has at last been awarded to an African American.
I thank God that my mother is alive to see this day.” In 1996, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
