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

Toni Morrison's writing changed my life. In an undergraduate class called Black Women's Writing, I was assigned her novel Beloved — and while reading it in my bedroom, I had my first spiritual ...

AS IT HAPPENS: Toni Morrison on race, racism and her novel God Help the Child She's often celebrated for her writing about the black experience.

At 84, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has just published her 11th novel, God Help the Child, and is already at work on her 12th ...

One of the great 20th-Century novelists, Morrison consciously aimed her work at black American readers. In a 2003 interview, she told the BBC about why that made her writing sing.

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison dies at 88 Nobel laureate Toni Morrison won’t stop writing She had an enormous impact on language, on ideas, on breaking open historical silences. Ms.

In 1993, Morrison became the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Despite her worldwide acclaim, the Ohio native was rarely writing full-time.

Toni Morrison — who was nearly 40 when she published her first novel in 1970 — wasn’t an overnight success. The author was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio.

Lessons on Black Art Writing From Toni Morrison Morrison reminds us to dwell in Black visions, to give ourselves over to them entirely, and to do so in language that does not plead for understanding.

They belonged to us. Morrison died at 88 of complications from pneumonia on August 5. She was the prolific author of numerous novels, plays, libretti and essays.