(Born 18 February 1931, Lorain, Ohio, US)
One of the United States’s preeminent writers – novelist, academic, essayist, editor, commentator, winner of 1992 Nobel prize for literature
(God Help the Child, new novel to be published 21 April 2015 [New York: Knopf, 198pp, US$18.60 hc, US$10.22 kindle] and 23 April 2015 [London: Chatto & Windus, 208pp, £13.48 hc, £6.64 kindle])
“Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that
freed self was another” (Toni Morrison)
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been
written yet, then you must write it” (Toni Morrison)
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
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