The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...

Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding ...

Lorain Public Library hosts week of events honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author ahead of Ohio's annual Toni Morrison Day ...

Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

These two books approach very different subjects -- the American literary canon and American football -- but share a suspicion about what we accept too easily.

Morrison anchors her discussion of these complexities in her personal experience, recounting a memory from her childhood in the 1930s: a visit from her great-grandmother, Millicent MacTeer, a figure ...

No. 2245 Elyria Avenue in Lorain, Ohio, is a two-story frame house surrounded by look-alikes. Its small front porch is littered with the discards of former tenants: a banged-up bicycle wheel, a ...

While working at Random House in the 1970s, Toni Morrison was known as “the black editor” for her commitment to publishing books about the African American experience. One of her bestsellers was “The ...