Ohio will celebrate Toni Morrison's life and works with a year-long event, "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," ...

Since 1996, Oprah Winfrey has been sharing her favorite reads with fellow bookworms through Oprah's Book Club. See all of the media personality's 2026 selections, so far.

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Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

Is the first African American woman to win a Nobel Prize. Wrote the libretto for the opera “Margaret Garner,” which premiered in 2005. 1955-1957 – Teaches at Texas Southern University. 1957-1964 – ...

Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, Gloria Steinem, and Taylor Swift are just some of the women who have become famous ...

The program included interviews with the likes of Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison.

In “Kin,” the follow-up to the best-selling “An American Marriage,” she looks back on the place and the people that forged her.

Toni Morrison, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Thurgood Marshall, Katherine Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and Megan Thee Stallion are just some of the notable people who shifted culture and ...

Plus, more book recommendations from the Kin author.

To celebrate, the Library will host a monthly book group throughout 2026 to read the works of Morrison. We'll be starting on Feb. 26 with her book ”Song of Solomon,” the 1977 novel that helped her ...

What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds ...