You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor. In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing.

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.

Celebrated author Toni Morrison, who had a keen eye for understanding the complexities of human relationships, often drew ...

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...

I first interviewed Toni Morrison about her work as a book editor in September 2005, in her office at Princeton. Though our meeting was scheduled for late afternoon, I took an early train from ...

As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.

Toni Morrison’s novel has roiled the Virginia governor’s race and provided a reason to reflect on the importance of reading things that challenge you. By Molly Young Charles M. Blow ...