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

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

Toni Morrison was a Lorain native who was known worldwide for her adult and children’s books. “She was probably one of the best writers in America,” Lorain Public Library Librarian Cheri ...

Born under the name Chloe Ardelia Woford in Lorain, OH, on Feb. 18, 1931, Morrison enrolled into Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1949, where she would begin using the name “Toni” in reference ...

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Toni Morrison’s only staged play ‘Dreaming Emmett’ ran for four weeks to mixed reviews and Morrison later asked for copies of the play not to circulate.

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 has written some of literature’s most enduring classics, from 'The Bluest Eye' to 'Beloved' and beyond. Here's what you need to know about the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

She's quick to parse: Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved" and Margaret Garner as a historical figure are two separate stories. It's purposeful. And moreover, impactful.

Morrison was an African American novelist and editor who passed away in 2019 at the age of 88. She won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 1993 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.