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 article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The soirée was at the Steuben Club in Albany, a half-hour before the ...

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 ...