For readers of historical fiction, there’s no need to settle on just one place or period when journeying into the past. At ...

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.

It did not sell well, but her next title Sula (1973) did. Sula was well received and was nominated for the National Book Award in 1975. Morrison’s third book, Song of Solomon (1977), made history as ...

I can smell the carrot cake she dutifully baked, one of her specialties, the room fragrant from the toasted scent of cardamom, allspice, and nutmeg. I imagine the Nobel laureate, who died in 2019, ...

Toni Morrison at a 2005 New York City event for hurricane relief. Insert: the first edition cover of her 1973 novel ‘Sula’ (Getty/Knopf) T he first Toni Morrison book I read was The Bluest Eye.