Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...

Woolf knew why. The patriarchy, she wrote, depends upon man’s “feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race ...

A Love Story’ unpacks ‘The Fire Next Time’ author’s life and work through accounts of his four most significant relationships ...

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

I first interviewed Toni Morrison about her work as a book editor in September 2005, in her office at Princeton. Though our meeting was scheduled for late afternoon, I took an early train from ...

Features Toni Morrison discussing her journey as a writer, including her experiences in a writers' group, her early life, and the challenges she faced as a single mother. She recounts how her ...

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.

Morrison was a Black woman from Lorain, Ohio, but called many other places home throughout her life: Washington, D.C., Syracuse, Houston, Princeton, Grand View-on-Hudson.

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and Matilda Cuomo join Toni Morrison after presenting the novelist with a Governor’s Arts Award at The Egg in Albany on March 4, 1986.

One of the great 20th-Century novelists, Morrison consciously aimed her work at black American readers. In a 2003 interview, she told the BBC about why that made her writing sing.