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 ...

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.

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.