This article was published more than 10 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. This all remains true in spite of her slim new book, which is less a Toni Morrison novel than an ...

Toni Morrison was one of the most celebrated American novelists. She was known for her powerful, sensuous prose and for blazing a path — and creating a space — for Black writers and thinkers.

Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Jazz and A Mercy — among many other books — died on Aug. 5, 2019. She was 88. The influential American novelist is being celebrated ...