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.” ...

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.

American icon Maya Angelou passed at 86 years old. Here is an exclusive conversation we held on the occasion of Toni Morrison's 82nd birthday in 2013 in which Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni ...

For those who are unfamiliar with Toni Morrison or her work, there is no concise way to describe how she has impacted Western literature and readers internationally with her prose. Having sadly passed ...

Memory is tragic and everlasting; it stretches across time and location. Each wry, taunting voice is representative of a memory. Toni Morrison’s gorgeous novel, “ Beloved,” handles tragedy with care ...

Novelist Toni Morrison, the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, died at the age of 88. In a statement released by her family, it was said that Toni Morrison died ...

Beginning in the 1980s, a number of key literary institutions transformed in ways that either expressly or implicitly promoted historical fiction as contemporary literature’s most prestigious ...