![]() ![]() She mentored writers such as David Treuer and Mohsin Hamid-by all accounts, her finger went straight to the pulse of a workshop piece, unerring in its aim, precise in its criticism.īut we know her today as she asked us to know her: through her novels and one published short story. Her passion, though, was for writing and teaching she traded the editor’s desk for the typewriter and a lectern at Princeton. Then, as a divorced mother of two, she became the first Black female editor at Random House, where she shepherded luminaries such as Toni Cade Bambara, Angela Davis, and Gayl Jones into print. ![]() ![]() One of only 12 Americans to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Morrison was born on February 18, 1931, and raised in Lorain, Ohio, earning degrees from Howard and Cornell. Although she left us more than two years ago, Toni Morrison and her singular oeuvre live on in our hearts and mind, rippling like concentric circles over fathomless depths as she upends and transforms myths of race and redemption, personal and political. ![]()
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