Toni morrison

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

The world is mourning the loss of Toni Morrison but none so much as the black women who were buoyed by her words.

In the History of Interdisciplinary Arts course, we will be focusing on a time and place in history, and each student will choose an artist on which to focus their inquiry. We were asked to pick a decade and a city and to choose someone who was “then & there.” The top three picks were London in the ’70s, Chicago in the ’60s, and New York in the ’70s. All of these choices promised to be full of interesting, dynamic, and/or powerful characters. There was a run-off between the top two choices…

Generations of authors, editors and other artists and luminaries pay tribute to “the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known.”

Post with 118 views. Angela Davis and Toni Morrison taking a stroll. March 28, 1974 (AAG)

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