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
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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