Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding ...

I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...

Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As Ohio prepares for a yearlong celebration of Toni Morrison, a leading literary scholar is coming to Cleveland with a major new book about the Nobel Prize-winning author. Harvard ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the 1970s, before Morrison was world-famous for her fiction, she worked at Random ...

She’s been called “America’s Shakespeare” and one of Ohio’s “Black queens.” Wednesday kicks off a yearlong celebration of one ...

Books We Love is NPR's list of best reads. One of this year's picks is called "Toni At Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" by Dana A. Williams. It's a biography of Toni Morrison's time ...

This month’s new releases include ‘Autobiography of Cotton’ by Cristina Rivera Garza, ‘Language as Liberation’ by Toni ...

Youngstown State University will mix some jazz with some “Jazz” to celebrate Ohio-born author Toni Morrison. A community ...

Ohio Humanities and Literary Cleveland are launching "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," a yearlong initiative honoring ...