Toni morrison

The Nobel laureate, who died this week, made the world bigger for all of us.

Editor’s note: Author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison died on Aug. 5, 2019 at 88 years old. This story was originally published on July 15, 2019. For years, on…

Readers could sense in Morrison’s fiction the influences of Ralph Ellison, the Bible and William Faulkner, among others, but her idiosyncratic music was her own.

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What it's about: "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to 1970s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, the US, history, and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature…

Toni Morrison was more than just a titan of American letters—she was a prolific birder, gardener, and observer of nature

Hilton Als interviews Toni Morrison in 2015 at The New Yorker Festival, about writing her novels, including “Beloved,” “Sula,” “Jazz,” and others, and how her relationship with her father shaped her understanding of the world.