Beloved Beloved By NYT Book Review Author Survey

“BELOVED” BY TONI MORRISON WINS TOP SPOT
IN NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW SURVEY OF
BEST FICTION PUBLISHED IN U.S. SINCE 1980

NEW YORK, May 11, 2006 — A New York Times Book Review survey of 124 prominent authors, critics and editors has selected Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” as the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years. The novel, published in 1987 by Alfred A. Knopf, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.