As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.

From 2004: Toni Morrison on a writer's life 08:17. Someone else suggested the title "Love," but Toni Morrison agreed to it, ... Anthony, and "Morrison" from her ex-husband.

The author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and best known for her nuanced discussion of race in America.

Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is gone. But her unique voice endures in novels like "Beloved." ... Morrison was the surname of her ex-husband, ...

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.

So You Haven't Read the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Beloved by author Toni Morrison? Well, then pull up a seat and get ready for the haunting story of a former family of slaves who are troubled ...

Know her husband, too. He fell for an eighteen-year-old girl with one of those deepdown, ... Photo: Courtesy of the Toni Morrison Papers, Special Collections, Princeton University Library .

Salamishah Tillet, a Pulitzer-winning critic, discusses the book she has read the most over the course of her life — Toni Morrison’s classic novel of slavery and trauma.

Toni Morrison- 2011 Rutgers Commencement Address Photo: Getty Images Ulf Andersen Photo: Getty Images Ulf Andersen “Your life is already artful — waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.” ...

During this period, she met her husband, gave birth to her first son, became pregnant with her second, and got divorced. ... Toni Morrison at her upstate home in Rockland County in 1980.