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As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.
Toni at Random,” “How Things Are Made,” “The House on Buzzards Bay,” and “Endling.” ...
This rich documentary about the acclaimed author and educator impressively captures a self possessed woman who is majestic, whip-smart, witty, insightful, self aware, and a little mischievous. Toni ...
In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing. By Martha Southgate Nettie Jones made a splash in 1984 with her ...
Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon.
Among Morrison’s many fruitful collaborations was her work with Toni Cade Bambara. Through their working relationship, the two became close friends as well as writer and editor.
Abacus, £12.99 “Few writers bring the world of ordinary people during the Tudor period to life as skilfully as Philippa ... HarperCollins, £10.99 “Set in 1941, Morrison‘s beautiful and uncompromising ...
He was a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where colleagues included Toni Morrison and his close friend, Joyce Carol Oates. He was an encyclopedic reader who absorbed literature .
Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died.