Toni morrison

Editor’s note: Author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison died on Aug. 5, 2019 at 88 years old. This story was originally published on July 15, 2019. For years, on…

George Saunders, Mary Karr, Jacqueline Woodson, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Alexander Chee commemorate the author Toni Morrison and the expansive influence of her work.

Irresistible vitality and intensity were cornerstones of her extraordinary life.

Hilton Als interviews Toni Morrison in 2015 at The New Yorker Festival, about writing her novels, including “Beloved,” “Sula,” “Jazz,” and others, and how her relationship with her father shaped her understanding of the world.

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In 1988, Morrison became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Description from chron.com. I searched for this on bing.com/images

Toni Morrison joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1989 as the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities. She has also been associated with the faculty of the Program in Creative Writing, and was the founding director of the Princeton Atelier, which brings acclaimed artists together with students to create projects in a workshop environ