Coverage of Toni Morrison's passing

Toni Morrison died on August 5, 2019. News of her death began to circulate the following day. 

• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 - Margalit Fox - New York Times
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will - Dwight Garner -New York Times
• Aug. 6: The Essential Toni Morrison Reader - Tina Jordan - New York Times
• Aug. 6: Beyond the Books: Toni Morrison’s Essays and Criticism - Tina Jordan - New York Times
• Aug. 6: What Do Toni Morrison’s Books Mean to You? - Amy Zerba - New York Times

• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison was both a mirror and a map  - Lynell George - Los Angeles Times
• Aug. 6: 12 of Toni Morrison’s Most Memorable Quotes - New York Times

• Aug. 6: Remembering Toni Morrison - Wendi Maloney - Library of Congress Blog
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison: The Woman Who Taught Me That I’m Not Alone - M. Yvonne Taylor - Daily Beast
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison’s Song of America - Tracy K. Smith - New York Times
• Aug. 6: Don’t Call Toni Morrison a Poet - Emma Goldberg - New York Times
• Aug. 6: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison - New York Times
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play - Veronica Chambers - New York Times
• Aug. 6: What Toni Morrison’s Words Meant to Readers - Amy Zerba - New York Times

• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, 'Beloved' author and Nobel laureate, dies at 88 - Melonyce McAfee - CNN

• Aug. 6: Remembering the larger than life impact of Toni Morrison - Jana Shortal - KARE
• Aug. 6: Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison Dies at 88 - Brenda Cronin - Wall Street Journal
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, Nobel laureate who transfigured American lit, dies at 88 - Emily Langer - Washington Post
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison...Chronicled the Black American Experience, Dies at 88 - Andrew R. Chow - Time
• Aug. 6: Remembering the Peerless Toni Morrison - Sophie Gilbert - The Atlantic
• Aug. 6: Award-Winning Novelist Toni Morrison, Author Of ‘Beloved,’ Has Died - Rachel Kramer Bussel - Forbes
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate, dies aged 88 - Richard Lea and Sian Cain - The Guardian
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison Dead at 88 - Jazz Monroe - Pitchfork
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, One of America’s Greatest Writers, Has Died at 88 - Monée Fields-White - The Root
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison made living in this world more bearable - Tia Noelle Pratt - American Magazine
• Aug. 6: Obituary: Toni Morrison - BBC
• Aug. 6: Beloved Author Toni Morrison Has Died at 88 - Zoe Haylock - Vulture
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison...Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88 - Karen Grigsby Bates - NPR
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, peerless American novelist and Nobel laureate, has died at 88 - Aja Romano - Vox
• Aug. 6: Novelist Toni Morrison...Has Died At 88 - Michael Blackmon - BuzzFeed
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison dead at 88 - Thomas Curwen - LA Times
• Aug. 6: Literary giant Toni Morrison passes at 88 - Kenya Vaughn - St. Louis American
• Aug. 6: The Toni Morrison Syllabus - The Ringer Staff - The Ringer
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison Reshaped the Landscape of Literature - Laura Miller - Slate
• Aug. 6: One of the most meaningful experiences of my professional life. -- Imani Perry - Twitter
• Aug. 6: In honor of Nobel laureate #ToniMorrison - Kevin Young - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Mama Toni. Thank you for playing Jazz for us. Rae - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison's powerful writing taught us - Elizabeth Warren - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Today we lost an American legend. - Bernie Sanders - Twitter
• Aug. 6: In the passing of Toni Morrison, we lost one of our greatest voices & storytellers - Kamala Harris - Twitter
• Aug. 6: GW Remembers Novelist Toni Morrison - GW Today 
• Aug. 6: The world just lost an incredible soul - Cory Booker - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison Remembered as a 'Writer for This Age. - Alison Jones - Duke Today
• Aug. 6: A lesson for each of us. A lesson for our country. - Beo O'Rourke - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison was a national treasure - Barack Obama - Twitter
• Aug. 6: She made me understand“writer” was a fine profession - Shona Rhimes - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Can we just do a whole Toni Morrison quotes thread? FOR COMFORT - Lisa Lucas - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison's writing speaks for itself - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Instagram
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison transformed the texture of English - Dionne Brand - The Globe and Mail
• Aug. 6: Remembering Toni - Fran Lebowitz - The Paris Review
• Aug. 6: Spent the whole day, literally, fielding calls about #ToniMorrison - Dana Williams - Twitter
• Aug. 6: The Magnitude of Toni Morrison - Hannah Giorgis - The Atlantic
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison took the word and turned it into a Song - Oprah Winfrey - Instagram
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison was a world-class human being. - Bill Clinton - Twitter
• Aug. 6: Authors pay tribute to the enduring legacy of Toni Morrison - Multiple authors - Penguin Books
• Aug. 6: Af.-Am novelist and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison dies at 88 - Deborah Dundas - The Toronto Star
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison Remembered ...in Moving Tributes - Antoinette Bueno - ET
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, A Single Working Mother... Greatest Novelist - Elizabeth Kim - The Gothamist
• Aug. 6: Howard University mourns iconic author Toni Morrison, a star alumna - Michelle Marsh - WJLA
• Aug. 6: How Morrison’s words pierced me,  a black Christian female writer - Ekemini Uwan - Washington Post
• Aug. 6: How Toni Morrison changed fiction - Rafia Zafar - New York Daily News
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison Began Writing One Of Her Best-Known Works At Howard - Mikaela Lefrak - DCist
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison...author of 'Beloved,' dies at 88 - Deirdre Donahue - USA Today
• Aug. 6: Lessons we can learn from Toni Morrison - Joshua Barajas - PBS
• Aug. 6: 18 Times Toni Morrison Spoke To Our Souls - Tomi Obaro and Tessa Fahey - BuzzFeed
• Aug. 6: The Sound and the Silence of Toni Morrison - Clint Smith - New Republic
• Aug. 6: 8 Women Writers on What Toni Morrison Meant to Them - Erica Schwiegershausen - The Cut
• Aug. 6: On Writing An Opera With Toni Morrison - Talya Zax - Forward
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison obituary - Lyn Innes - The Guardian
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate, dies aged 88 - Richard Lea and Sian Cain - The Guardian 
• Aug. 6: Toni Morrison: a life in pictures - Compiled by Joe Pilmmer - The Guardian
• Aug. 6: Condolences for Toni Morrison - multiple - Legacy.com
• Aug. 7: The Priceless Advice Toni Morrison Gave Me - A. J. Verdelle - New York Times

• Aug. 7: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ - Toni Morrison - New York Times

• Aug. 7: Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Others React to Toni Morrison’s Death - New York Times

• Aug. 7: Yearning for a Blessing From Toni Morrison - Imani Perry - The Cut
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think - Wesley Morris - New York Times

• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison, Revolutionary Political Thinker - Angela Davis and Farah Jasmine Griffin - New York Times

• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison refused to frame her work for a white audience - Janell Ross - NBC News

• Aug. 7: Poet Eugene Redmond on the legacy of Toni Morrison - CBC Radio
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison: farewell to America's greatest writer - Chigozie Obioma - The Guardian
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison saw into the heart of America - Jane Carr - CNN
• Aug. 7: The eternal fruit of Toni Morrison's Iroko tree - Nanjala Nyabola - Al Jazeera
• Aug. 7: They read Toni Morrison in school — and she changed their world - Valerie Strauss - Washington Post
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison and what our mothers couldn't say - Doreen St. Félix - New Yorker
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison taught me to read - Cleyvia Natera - Washington Post
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison Gave My Own Story Back to Me - Brandon Taylor - Electric Lit
• Aug. 7: Black Writers In Boston Remember Iconic Author Toni Morrison - Arielle Gray - WBUR  
• Aug. 7: Readers remember Toni Morrison - Guardian readers and Naomi Larsson - The Guardian
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison, author baptized Catholic as child, dies at age 88 - Carol Zimmerman - Crux 
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison: 1931-2019 - Robert Daniels - Roger Ebert
• Aug. 7: Daughters of Toni: A Remembrance - Zadie Smith - Pen America
• Aug. 7: I’m still crying. Unpacked my Toni books even though I don’t have a bookshelf yet. - Angel C. Dye - Twitter
• Aug. 7: Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni & Sonia Sanchez Pay Tribute - Democracy Now
• Aug. 7: Remembering Toni Morrison, 'A Friend Of Our Minds' - On Point
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison, Activist - Joy James - Boston Review
• Aug. 7: Meaning, Without the White Gaze - Rebecca Carroll - The Atlantic
• Aug. 7: The Generosity Of Toni Morrison - Hanif Abdurraqib - BuzzFeed
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison and ‘the Human Project’ - Robert Greene II - The Nation
• Aug. 7: Remembering Toni Morrison - R. Spaeth, C. Smith M. Smith, N. Painter, J. Livingtson - New Republic
• Aug. 7: For Toni Morrison, Who Taught Me to See - Jamil Smith - Rolling Stone
• Aug. 7: What I Learned As Toni Morrison’s Personal Assistant - John Hoppenthaler - The Cut
• Aug. 7: Honoring Toni Morrison's Work and Legacy - Tayari Jones - Time
• Aug. 7: Let Toni Morrison's Wisdom Guide You Through Life - Elena Nicolaou - Refinery29
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison Told the Story of America - Britt Julious - Vice
• Aug. 7: Morrison was wickedly funny and made a mean carrot cake - Christie D'Zurilla - Los Angeles Times
• Aug. 7: That Time Toni Morrison Thought Her Nobel Prize win was a hoax - Mark Burger
• Aug. 7: Deborah McDowell lauds powerful prose of her friend, Toni Morrison - Anne E. Bromley - UVAToday
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison: America's truth-teller - The Editorial Board - The Toledo Blade
• Aug. 7: Going to the movies with Toni Morrison - Kevin Young - New Yorker
• Aug. 7: Baltimore artist honors Toni Morrison with mural - Sameer Rao - Baltimore Sun
• Aug. 7: Reflecting on the Literature and Legacy of Toni Morrison - KQED
• Aug. 7: Toni Morrison’s Black Art Spoke in a Nation That Would Silence Us - Eisa Nefertari Ulen - Truthout
• Aug. 8: RC Flags at Half-Staff to Honor Toni Morrison - Rockland County Times
• Aug. 8: The lessons of Toni Morrison - Mary C. Curtis - Roll Call
• Aug. 8: Toni Morrison leaves a literary legacy that's larger than words - Jamyra Perry - Philadelphia Tribune
• Aug. 8: Toni Morrison: A radical ancestor - Danielle Bowler - New Frame
• Aug. 8: Toni Morrison: American literary giant - Tessa Roynon - This is Africa
• Aug. 8: Toni Morrison Was Game Changer - Ron Wynn - The Tennessee Tribune
• Aug. 8: Kara Walker’s Toni Morrison - Françoise Mouly - New Yorker
• Aug. 8: Artists Expressing How [Morrison] Moved Them - Victoria L. Waletine - Culture Type
• Aug. 8: Visionary: Toni Morrison - 1A
• Aug. 8: America readers remember Toni Morrison - American Magazine
• Aug. 8: An American great - Michiko Kakutani - The Guardian
• Aug. 8: The imaginative worlds of Toni Morrison - Jade Bentil - Prospect
• Aug. 8: Celebrating Toni Morrison’s D.C. Roots And Legacy - Kojo Nnamdi Show
• Aug. 8: Remembering Toni Morrison - Irma McClaurin - Insight News
• Aug. 8: Toni Morrison’s Cosmos - Jesse McCarthy - The Nation
• Aug. 8: Remembering Toni Morrison: UW–Madison Professor Offers Reading Recommendations - Public Now
• Aug. 8: I Was Hesitant To Write About The Holocaust — Until Toni Morrison - Rachel Kadish - Forward
• Aug. 8: Kara Walker, ‘New Yorker’ produced Morrison cover in less than 24 hours - Sarah Cascone - ArtNetNews
• Aug. 9: What Toni Morrison Understood about Hate - David Remnick - New Yorker
• Aug. 9: The Legacy of Toni Morrison - Roxane Gay - New York Times
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison Showed Us That Our People Were...Enough - Mitchell S. Jackson - Esquire
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison, American author, 1931-2019 - Erica Wagner - Financial Times
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison’s work with Muhammad Ali - Kevin B. Blackistone - Washington Post
• Aug. 9: How Toni Morrison Might Say Goodbye - Jabari Asim - WBUR
• Aug. 9: The Books Briefing: What Toni Morrison Saw - Rosa Inocencio Smith - The Atlantic
• Aug. 9: An Appreciation: Toni Morrison and the Need for Tomorrows - Sam Sacks - Wall Street Journal
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison Made Words Burn and Cry - Marlon James - Time
• Aug. 9: Penn remembers and celebrates Toni Morrison - Brandon Baker - Penn Today
• Aug. 9: A Letter to Toni Morrison - Kim McLarin - American Prospect
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison knew the raw power of language - Editorial Board - Toronto Star
• Aug. 9: Toni Toni Toni: On the Death of a Shero - Kierna Mayo - AfroPunk
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison’s Life in Publishing - Calvin Reid - Publishers Weekly
• Aug. 9: Can there be another Toni Morrison? - Mark Chiusano - The Daily Star
• Aug. 9: Eight black women on Toni Morrison’s life, legacy - Michelle Obama et al. - Washington Post
• Aug. 9: I Was Wandering. Toni Morrison Found Me. - Jesmyn Ward - New York Times
• Aug. 9: Toni Morrison Changed Literature and the World - Scott Woods - Legacy.com
• Aug. 10: How Toni Morrison inspired black bookstore on Instagram - Max Marin - BillyPenn
• Aug. 10: ‘We always knew she was on our side’ - Bernardine Evaristo - The Guardian
• Aug. 10: Morrison novels have been borrowed nearly 5,000 - CD Davidson-Hiers - Tallahassee Democrat
• Aug. 10: The Last Great American Novelist - Ross Douthat - New York Times
• Aug. 10: Toni Morrison’s gift was to make black people feel seen - Irenosen Okojie - The Guardian
• Aug. 10: Toni Morrison, Remembered by writers - New Yorker
• Aug. 10: Indelible Substance of a semester with Toni Morrison - Troy Patterson - New Yorker
• Aug. 11: Toni Morrison remembered - multiple writers - The Guardian
• Aug. 11: Toni Morrison remembered - Édouard Louis - The Guardian:
• Aug. 11: Lorain’s Morrison captured African-American lives in luminous fiction - Karen R. Long - Cleveland.com
• Aug. 11: 12 Great Toni Morrison Quotes to remember - Holly Genovese - Book Riot
• Aug. 11: Toni Morrison taught me many things - Kay Wicker - ThinkProgress
• Aug. 11: How much Toni Morrison meant (letter to the editor) - Mary Helen Washington - Washington Post
• Aug. 11: Toni Morrison: here are her five standout writings - The Citizen
• Aug. 12: Book Twitter Remembers Toni Morrison - Susie Dumond - Book Riot
• Aug. 12: Toni Morrison, public intellectual - K.  Biswas - New Statesman
• Aug. 12: Timeless words from Toni Morrison's books - Times Live/ Sunday Times
• Aug. 12: A Tribute to Toni Morrison - multiple authors - Publishers Weekly
• Aug. 12: A collaborative tribute to Toni Morrison - multiple authors - New Frame
• Aug. 12: What The Bluest Eye Taught Me About Being a Black Girl - Jamilah Lemieux - Refinery29
• Aug.  12: Toni Morrison's Legacy - featuring Evelyn Schreiber - Studio 5 on AMI-audio
• Aug. 13: How Toni Morrison’s legacy plays out in South Africa’s universities - The Conversation 
• Aug. 13: Remembering literary giant Toni Morrison from Lorain - Jeff Darcy - Cleveland.com
• Aug. 13: Toni Morrison, 1931—2019 - Eve R. Stone Light - Socialist Worker
• Aug. 13: The words and worlds of Toni Morrison - Anastasya Eliseeva - New Frame
• Aug. 13: A Tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison - Marilyn Mobley - Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• Aug. 13: Growing Up With Toni Morrison - The Cut
•  Aug. 13: Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 - Danielle A. Jackson - Longreads
• Aug. 13: Our Professor: Toni Morrison Memory - Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Duke University Press
• Aug. 13: What Toni Morrison Knew About Trump - Syreeta Mcfadden - The Atlantic
• Aug. 14: What Morrison Meant To Black Women Writers, In Their Own Words - Kristian Wilson - Bustle
• Aug. 14: Magical realism is for us by us and Toni Morrison was the Queen - Nicole Young - Book Riot
• Aug. 14: In Toni Morrison’s Hometown, the Familiar Has Become Foreign - Tara L. Conley - City Lab

• Aug. 14: My Profound Appreciation for Toni Morrison - Khalilah T. Watson Muhammad - Final Call 

• Aug. 14: Toni Morrison: an unapologetic literary ‘prophet’ - Nisa Islam Muhammad - Final Call
• Aug. 14: It's August, so I wanted to let you know about a few books - Barack Obama - Facebook
• Aug. 15: Toni Morrison and the Music of Black Life - Daphne A. Brooks - Pitchfork
• Aug. 15: On the passing of the unparalleled Toni Morrison - Sharma Shields - Inlander
• Aug. 15: New Orleans writers to honor Toni Morrison - Kaylee Poche - Gambit
• Aug. 15: Toni Morrison made a memorable visit to Rochester - Maxine Childress Brown - Democrat & Chronicle
• Aug. 15: Morrison’s Passing Loss for the Racial Justice Community - Marc H. Morial - Charleston Chronicle
• Aug. 16: Grieving Toni Morrison through the words she left behind - Megan Burbank - Seattle Times
• Aug. 16: Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: A Gothic Classic of Black Horror Media - Donyae Coles - Bloody Disgusting
• Aug. 16: Obama’s summer reading list ...nod to Morrison - Michael Schaub - Los Angeles Times
• Aug. 16: A reflection on friendship, banter with Toni Morrison - Brittany Britto - Houston Chronicle 
• Aug. 17: Toni Morrison’s former students reflect - Travis DeShong - Washington Post
• Aug. 17: 5 Picture Books by Toni Morrison and her son Slade Morrison - Alison Doherty - Book Riot
• Aug. 17: The Interviews Of Toni Morrison: Beyond The Written Word - Lauren Prestia - Study Breaks
• Aug. 17: Will we read Toni Morrison in troubled times? Yes, we will. -  Paromita Patranobish - Scroll
• Aug. 17: The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall - Edwidge Danticat - New Yorker
• Aug. 18: Letter to the Editor - Marilyn Valentino - Cleveland.com
• Aug. 18: Toni Morrison and Digital Humanities - Malika Imhotep - Berkeley Center for New Media 
• Aug. 22: Toni Morrison and the Black Radical Tradition - Konstantina Karageorgos - Jacobin Magazine
• Aug. 22: Moments, Memories with Toni Morrison - A. Coke. Q & M. Troupe, I. Reed - LA Review of Books

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