A new historical marker now marks the Ithaca home where Toni Morrison lived during her graduate studies at Cornell, according to Tompkins Weekly. Community members, Cornell faculty and students ...

In her prose poem, “Toni Morrison,” Nikki Giovanni imagines cooking a “Toni Morrison stew.” Among its ingredients are the heightened contradictions that characterize her novels: An exotic mix of tears ...

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 ...

Toni Morrison, the celebrated Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author of groundbreaking novels, including Beloved and The Bluest Eye, has passed away at the age of 88. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf ...

Toni Morrison, who died in 2019, is shown in a 2012 photo at Oberlin College. The Lorain native and author of “Beloved,” “The Bluest Eye” and other books will be honored with a year-long celebration ...

As the United States of America turns 250 years old, Ohio will celebrate its "Beloved" author and Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison. Named after the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author's most renowned ...

Morrison, who was Scott’s mentor at Princeton University, once called the philanthropist “one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative-writing classes…really one of the best.” ...

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Ms. Morrison, who wrote “Beloved” and “Song of Solomon,” was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel in literature.