“Colored” is what her birth certificate says. Mine says “negro.” ... Toni Morrison spent her time on earth being and becoming and developing who she was, which was genius.

On this day in history, Feb. 18, 1931, American author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. Her book "Beloved" became a major bestseller.

Doreen St. Félix remembers Toni Morrison, the author of the novels “The Bluest Eye,” “Beloved,” “Jazz,” and “Sula,” who died on Monday, at the age of eighty-eight.

Looking back, 1975’s “The Greatest: My Own Story” showed how Morrison would come to illustrate how vexing it is being black in this country.

Collecting her Nobel Prize for literature in December 1993 was one of the most terrifying moments of Toni Morrison’s entire life, she said later. Not because Morrison, who died Monday at the age ...

Toni Morrison was a featured guest at the New Yorker Festival on Friday in a conversation that touched on everything from the Charleston church shooting to writing about race and her theory on ...

MORRISON, TONI (18th Feb. 1931 - 5th Aug. 2019) was a renowned and award-winning American author and professor. ... Morrison decided to move back with her family in Ohio before giving birth to her ...

Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” (1992) is a book born of books. In a 2004 foreword, Morrison traces the novel’s premise to an image of a young woman she saw in the photographer James Van Der Zee ...

The last home of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has come on the market for $4.75 million. Located in Tribeca’s landmark Textile Building, the condo is a corner unit with a modern feel ...

Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will. Her prose could be lush, or raw and demotic, or carefree and eccentric, often on a single page.

Toni Morrison remained committed to reminding us that black sound, the original punk rock, had been “historically regarded as illegal.” Yet this was the music that was always “reinventing ...

She reminds us what it is to read a Toni Morrison story, and why hers is a voice that has forever changed American fiction for the better. Goodness, I can't wait for this novel. Get Even More From ...