In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American ...

For Cornellians, celebrating 95 years of Toni Morrison should be more than an act of alumni pride; it should be an intentional reminder to examine our allyship and anti-Black bias within our community ...

What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds ...

The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...

Ohio Humanities and Literary Cleveland are launching "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," a yearlong initiative honoring ...

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...

Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

More than 50 years after its release, Toni Morrison’s harrowing debut is being hailed as a must-read classic — and its devastating story still resonates today.

Wilkerson pays tribute to her idol and mentor in this week's issue of PEOPLE Toni Morrison — a Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning author, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 — was ...

Youngstown State University will mix some jazz with some “Jazz” to celebrate Ohio-born author Toni Morrison. A community ...

Ohio will celebrate Toni Morrison's life and works with a year-long event, "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," ...

American author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison was born on this day in history, Feb. 18, 1931. Morrison was born the second of four children in Lorain, Ohio, and was given the birth name Chloe ...