The first Toni Morrison book I read was 'The Bluest Eye'. Like all loved books, I remember exactly where I was when I read it. I was living in a squat in Vauxhall and Brixton was burning in the ...

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

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 ...

Toni Morrison at a 2005 New York City event for hurricane relief. Insert: the first edition cover of her 1973 novel ‘Sula’ (Getty/Knopf) I loved Song of Soloman, particularly the strange and ...