Never-Before-Seen Correspondence Sheds Light on Toni Morrison's Editing Life

Never-Before-Seen Correspondence Sheds Light on Toni Morrison's Editing Life

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison in New York City, where she worked as a Random House editor for 16 years. An inter-office memo highlighting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s inherent racism reveals Toni Morrison to have been as fierce an editor as she was a writer By Dana A. Williams I’ve spent a lot of time reading Toni Morrison’s editorial correspondence from her time at the publishers L. W. Singer and Random House, where she…