Don’t Forget About Toni Morrison’s Work as an Editor

Her nurturing of Black authors changed the publishing world

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Toni Morrison is largely known and revered as a Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning novelist. She’s sometimes remembered as an influential college professor, and as a stirring orator. But she also worked at Random House for many years as a book editor, as Arielle Gray writes in ZORA…