In her new book, “Toni at Random,” Dana A. Williams highlights the groundbreaking writer’s time working in publishing.

Award-winning novelist Toni Morrison wrote ‘Beloved,’ ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘Sula,’ and many other books. Read about her teaching career, quotes, death, and more.© Getty Images ...

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.

News about Toni Morrison, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.