When Toni Morrison received her Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, her remarksbegan with a reflection on the phrase once upon a time. In her signature, measured cadence, Morrison told the Swedish ...

To counteract the censorship efforts targeting the author’s work, the Penguin Random House imprint will repackage eleven novels by Morrison with new cover designs and introductions, starting this ...

Toni Morrison is one of the most prolific writers that our nation has ever known. The Nobel laureate, who in 1993 became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by ...

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 ...

Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is gone. But her unique voice – earthy, poetic, powerful, elliptical – endures in novels like "Beloved, "Song of ...

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. Her father, George ...

(NEW YORK) — Toni Morrison, the renowned author best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved and for being the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, died Monday ...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the ...

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 ...

Author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is the latest person to be honored with her own stamp by the U.S. Postal Service. Princeton University also held a ceremony to celebrate the stamp when it went ...

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 shockingly erotic ...