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

I first interviewed Toni Morrison about her work as a book editor in September 2005, in her office at Princeton. Though our ...

This is where the idea of Toni Morrison begins to blaze again. Sweetness is yet another one of Morrison's impossible mothers, women who take unthinkable actions in the midst of brutal circumstances.

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

In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing.