Toni Morrison

Novelist Toni Morrison has won the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer, and sold millions of copies of her books such as Beloved, Paradise, and Song of Solomon. Recently, she began writing books for children and has just completed six traditional fables she adapted with her son Slade. Morrison says she didn’t read many kids books […]

Last week, Studio 360 revisited a lively conversation with Marlon James — his novel The Book of Night Women is just out in paperback. All the main characters in the novel are women, and they’re rendered vibrantly. But it seems he didn’t always have that talent. In the interview, James tells Kurt that after he […]

Listen to Toni Morrison read the last page of her National Book Award-winning novel.

A winner of the Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison started writing because she couldn’t find the novels she wanted to read.

In literature, the African-American family has changed and morphed over the years. We take a look at three upcoming books about family written by black men.