About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and, most recently, A Mercy. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

Reviews

“It’s a slim volume, one that can be read in an afternoon, but don’t let this fool you into thinking it lacks power. Morrison’s—and the book’s—central thesis is true, if not necessarily original: ‘A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.’” — Los Angeles Times