Pink performs on NBC's Today show on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012 in New York. Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption
Toni Morrison Toni Morrison
Stories About
Toni Morrison
This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92. Michael Lionstar/Knopf via AP hide caption
Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature. An exhibition at Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, commemorates the 30th anniversary of her win. Morrison is pictured above in Paris in November 2010. Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Toni Morrison's diary entries, early drafts and letters are on display at Princeton
Florida teacher Adam Tritt and his group, Foundation 451, led the launch of a "Banned Book Nook" at a Ben & Jerry's ice cream store in Melbourne, Fla. Mikey Holland hide caption
Plot twist: Activists skirt book bans with guerrilla giveaways and pop-up libraries
Author Toni Morrison pictured at Princeton University in New Jersey in October 1993. She is known for her 11 novels, but her single short story has often been forgotten. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Toni Morrison's only short story is available in book form for the first time
Hollywood's Best Hopes To Keep Moviegoers Engaged After 'Endgame'
Toni Morrison, Nobel prize winning novelist, at the Hay Festival on May 27, 2014 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. David Levenson/Getty Images hide caption
Author Glory Edim uses her literary society to signal boost emerging black women writers. Jai Lennard/Courtesy of Penguin Random House hide caption
Kendrick Lamar visits Brian Mooney's English classes at High Tech High School in North Bergen, N.J., on Monday. Adam Wolffbrandt/NPR hide caption
Lily Bushelle, 5, as Toni Morrison. Courtesy of Marc Bushelle hide caption
Toni Morrison has been busy this fall, first announcing her plans to keep her archives at Princeton and then sparring amiably with Stephen Colbert. With a book coming out in spring 2015, she appears intent on keeping up the pace. Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A woman looks at an oil portrait of Toni Morrison at the National Portrait Gallery. A self-portrait of sorts, Morrison's life of fiction drawn in words will be permanently kept at Princeton. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Irish poet Seamus Heaney is pictured in 2010. Paul McErlane/EPA/Landov hide caption
Canadian author Yann Martel smiles for photographers after winning the Man Booker Prize. John Li/Getty Images hide caption