Bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney honors her former mentor Toni Morrison in a new children’s picture book, educating the younger generation about the literary legend’s iconic life.

Toni Morrison’s mothering life has long been ... marriage of her own accord and could afford to raise and support her children, as she worked full-time in a demanding field.

1. The second of four children, Toni Morrison was born in Ohio on Feb. 18, 1931. She would have been 94 in 2025. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images; Fact: CBC) 3. Morrison's paternal and maternal ...

She became Toni Morrison when she married Harold Morrison ... and people of both genders participated in it. We, the children, were encouraged to participate in it at a very early age.” ...

my guest is Toni Morrison, and her new novel is called "God Help The Child." You know, another theme in your book is how, you know, parents can mess up their children and how, as one character ...

Toni Morrison — the late author and Nobel laureate whose work focused on Black life and culture — published 11 acclaimed novels, several essay collections, about half a dozen children's books ...

She didn’t intend for Toni Morrison to be her published name ... she rose each morning at 4 a.m. “I used to write with my children pulling on my hair, babies pulling on my earrings ...

Toni Morrison, the author, essayist and winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, famously encouraged would-be writers to take action. Aug. 6, 2019 They meet as girls at the St. Bonaventure children ...

“Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that kind of ... and the story was that a slave woman had killed her children or tried to kill them all. What struck me was the theme was that she was not ...

The Toni Morrison Forever stamp is sold in panes of ... in 1970 while working full-time as an editor and raising two children. The novel centers on a sexually abused 11-year-old Black girl ...

excerpted from Toni Morrison’s 1993 Nobel Prize speech Toni ... As too many lives are made collateral damage — men, women, and children; Palestinians and Israelis; Muslims, Jews, and ...

Racism and fascism, Toni Morrison shares in a 1995 lecture delivered at Howard University, “changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children ...