Toni Morrison at Princeton in an undated photograph. The university acquired the author’s personal papers in 2014 and will display part of the archive, along with artwork inspired by it, next ...

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' new documentary tells the story of a pioneering book editor, the first female African American senior editor at Random House, who brought to print such distinctive ...

“So even though Toni Morrison died in 2019, she was our dramaturge. ... But Morrison and Shakespeare—and Simone and Verdi—are linked by their brilliance, ...

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

I’m at a bit of a loss over how to write about Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif.” The only short story ever written by the late Nobel laureate, who would have turned 91 this week, “Recitatif ...

Toni Morrison, as both a writer and a senior editor at Random House, never watered down stories or changed the language or perspective to make them more accessible to white readers.

Though “Toni Morrison: The Pieces that I Am” comes from a white storyteller, it distinctly and profoundly reflects the point of view of the subject herself.

The first time I saw Toni Morrison, she was sitting on the carpet of her office at Random House, wearing green garden shorts and a huge straw hat, piles of manuscripts on the floor around her.She ...

Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will. Her prose could be lush, or raw and demotic, or carefree and eccentric, often on a single page.

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.