Toni Morrison’s 'Beloved' did not begin as an American classic. It began as a wound. Long before readers and critics called it one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, Morrison ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a small city about 30 miles west of Cleveland.

Novelist Toni Morrison broke some hearts on Wednesday when she told fans in Ohio that she has canceled plans to write a memoir. The Associated Press reports that the 81-year-old Nobel laureate broke ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the 1970s, before Morrison was world-famous for her fiction, she worked at Random ...

I’m well acquainted with the fact that Toni Morrison is the greatest American writer of my lifetime. I know this because I’ve read her books, but I could also point to a little something called the ...

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is now forever immortalized on a stamp honoring the prolific writer, editor, scholar and mentor that was unveiled Tuesday morning in a tribute at ...

In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American literature. Serpell guides readers through Morrison’s extraordinary body of work ...