Kara Walker's Toni Morrison NewYorker cover story by Francoise Mouly, August 8, 2019
The Story of New Yorker's Toni Morrison Cover News/ ArtNet.com. by Sarah Cascone, August 8,2019
The Work You Do, The Person You Are. by Toni Morrison New Yorker May 29, 2017
The Radical Vision of Toni Morrison. New York Times. by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, April 8, 2015
Toni Morrison's Former Students Reflect. Washington Post by Travis DeShong. August 17, 2019
Observer Toni Morrison's Letter to Barack Obama by Tom McGovern. 1/28/08
Legendary novelist and editor Toni Morrison’s endorsement of Barack Obama is obviously not significant for her ability to move voters at the polls, which is not proven and probably not likely to be proven. But given her perceived attachment to the Clintons—Bill, she famously once called America’s first black president; and Hillary she has been close to in the past—we thought it worth printing in full the letter of endorsement she sent to the Illinois senator, as released by the Obama campaign:
Toni Morrison is congratulated by Princeton University students after she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 7, 1993.
Nobel Acceptance Speech. Text & Video
"Time is no match for Toni Morrison. In her writing, she sometimes toyed with it, warping and creasing it, bending it to her masterful will. In her life’s story, too, she treated time nontraditionally. A child of the Great Migration who’d lifted up new, more diverse voices in American literature as an editor, Toni didn’t publish her first novel until she was 39 years old. From there followed an ascendant career—a Pulitzer, a Nobel, and so much more—and with it, a fusion of the African American story within the American story. Toni Morrison was a national treasure. Her writing was not just beautiful but meaningful—a challenge to our conscience and a call to greater empathy. She was as good a storyteller, as captivating, in person as she was on the page. And so even as Michelle and I mourn her loss and send our warmest sympathies to her family and friends, we know that her stories—that our stories—will always be with us, and with those who come after, and on and on, for all time."