NEWPORT NEWS – Toni Joann Morrison, 56, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, at Mary Immaculate Hospital. She was born in Portsmouth, to Dallas and Carol Petersen. She attended Churchland High ...
Author Toni Morrison has died. In the 88 years she lived, Morrison garnered acclaim for writing about the lives of black Americans, and not just how those lives intersected with white people. Books ...
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the 1970s, before Morrison was world-famous for her fiction, she worked at Random ...