I first interviewed Toni Morrison ... the story of Morrison’s 12 highly productive years at Random House, from 1971 to 1983. Most of Morrison’s influential work as an editor was, in fact, completed ...

Through her novels, Toni Morrison crafted worlds that delve deeply into the complexities of Black life in America. From the haunting legacy of slavery in Beloved to the search for identity in Song ...

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

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

In 1988, Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 by President Obama.

Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” (1992) is a book born of books. In a 2004 foreword, Morrison traces the novel’s premise to an image of a young woman she saw in the photographer James Van Der Zee ...