Over the course of the past year, Toni Morrison has been a major focus for HBW blog posts as we seek to foster engaged scholarship on black novels. Morrison writer has become a totem of black literature since her
1970 novel debut with The Bluest Eye.

Since then, Morrison has been the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize (1987), a Nobel Prize in Literature (1993), and it was announced in 2012 that she would be the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest award for a civilian.

Below, I have compiled a list of entries on Morrison composed by various writers of the HBW staff.

• [April 25, 2011]: Literary Vantage Points: Multiple Perspectives of Toni Morrison 
• [August 29, 2011] Struggles for Freedom: Kanye West and Toni Morrison’s Artistic Renderings of Flight—By Kenton Rambsy
• [September 13, 2011] Playing in the Sunlight: Colors of Imagination, or Toni Morrison Revisited—By Jerry Ward
• [September 14, 2011] Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: Black Girls as Central Figures—By Goyland Williams
• [September 19, 2011] Break It Down: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye—By Goyland Williams
• [November 15, 2011] The Paraphernalia Of Suffering:Reflections On Beloved and Their Eyes Were Watching God—By Goyland Williams
• [December 1, 2011] The Evolution of Novel Covers—By Kenton Rambsy
• [January 23, 2012] Toni Morrison and Memorable Character Names—By Kenton Rambsy
• [February 8, 2012] Beloved—By Kenton Rambsy
• [February 15, 2012] Toni Morrison—By Kenton Rambsy
• [May 14, 2012] The Coverage… Of Toni Morrison’s Home