Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a small city about 30 miles west of Cleveland. She was the second oldest of four children.

The one time I officially lived abroad (Scotland, hardly the ends of the earth; nine months, hardly an eternity), my boyfriend sent a care package that made me cry, which had nothing to do with the ...

“Pick it up for the small-town setting, sweet romances, story of sisterhood ... or Western imperialism—writers from many cultures have taken to the genre. Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Haruki ...

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...

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

How Toni Morrison Changed Publishing At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers. By Clint Smith ...

I first interviewed Toni Morrison about her work as a book editor in September 2005, in her office at Princeton. Though our meeting was scheduled for late afternoon, I took an early train from ...

In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing. By Martha Southgate Nettie Jones made a splash in 1984 with her ...