“I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This production was closer to her heart, as it had originated from an ...

American Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison smiles during a news conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Nov. 8, 2006. (Michel Euler/AP) Author Andrea Davis Pinkney is out with a ...

Ohio established Toni Morrison Day — named for the late Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author born and raised in northeast Ohio — in a nearly unanimous bipartisan vote in 2020. Her books ...