An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.

The award-winning Black feminist author Toni Morrison converted to Roman Catholicism in her teens, taking Anthony as her baptismal name and using Toni as a pen name. She wrote fiction featuring ...

Features Toni Morrison discussing her journey as a writer, including her experiences in a writers' group, her early life, and the challenges she faced as a single mother. She recounts how her ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has named a new acting director for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, one of seven independent government agencies cited in a recent executive ...

Also, are there books which are just too dangerous to read? Is Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sure to influence unwanted behaviour? Are there those who can read a book like Niccolò Machiavelli ...

Children’s writer and author of the award-winning Crongton series, Alex Wheatle MBE, has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62. In a statement, his family said: "It is with great sadness we ...

He admitted that some of the writer’s work makes him “uncomfortable”. “He was very black and white about categorising people,” Blair told The Guardian. “The sandal-wearing, bearded ...

If you were to open the shades, you might meet Toni Mandia—an incredible Filipino nurse who dreamed big and made it happen. She is still acclimating to the new culture and colder climate ...

Toni Morrison made history as the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy recognised her for her ‘visionary force and poetic import’, particularly in novels ...

And though this column comes a day too late, it is a fitting occasion to recognize an author of Hibernian descent who always considered himself more Southern than Irish: Pat Conroy. Born in ...