COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Humanities has announced a yearlong celebration to honor one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Ohio native Toni Morrison. The initiative, titled “Beloved: Ohio ...

In the short story by John Cheever, “The Death of Justina” the author writes a sentence that is, at the same time, a polemic, an accusation, a plea, and an existentialist query. The main character ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The late Toni Morrison is still teaching lessons at Princeton. Morrison, the Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel laureate and longtime ...

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders speaks to THR about capturing the essence of his late friend, literary icon Toni Morrison. By Sharareh Drury Photographer and documentarian Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and ...

Walking into Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory, a new exhibition curated from the late author's archives at Princeton University, is an emotional experience for anyone who loves literature. Dozens of ...

A new exhibit celebrates the life of Toni Morrison with a focus on the late novelist’s work as a University at Albany professor in the 1980s. Faculty, alumni, and students at UAlbany unveiled the ...

The following is the introduction to Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, written by poet (and Morrison's close friend) Nikki Giovanni. In her highly-fitting tribute, Giovanni ...

The spacious Tribeca home is filled with plenty of light and mementos from the Nobel Laureate’s life Although life in the Big Apple can be all hustle and bustle, Toni Morrison's New York City ...

Nadine, Toni Morrison’s housekeeper, opens the door and lets us in. Morrison is not yet ready to receive us, so we wait upstairs in the living room, where Morrison has said, “make yourselves at home.” ...