Books & the Arts / Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. Namwali Serpell This essay is adapted from On ...

On Thursday, Cornell held a virtual day-long reading of The Bluest Eye to celebrate the amazing career of author Toni Morrison M.A. ʼ55 and the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication. This event ...

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An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," tied for third on the list, along with "The Perks of ...

Bowing to Tea Party pressure, Alabama State Senator Bill Holtzclaw said this week that he thinks The Bluest Eye, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's novel about a little black girl who wishes ...

Literary Cleveland will launch a statewide initiative this month celebrating author and Lorain native Toni Morrison.

Calling Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye “completely objectionable, from language to the content,” Republican Sen. Bill Holtzclaw of Alabama said it should be banned from ...

Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a small city about 30 miles west of Cleveland. She was the second oldest of four children. Her father, George ...