An American great: Michiko Kakutani reflects on Toni Morrison's legacy

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An American great: Michiko Kakutani reflects on Toni Morrison's legacy
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Toni Morrison historical imagination and remarkable gifts of language made her one of the most influential writers of her generation

In novels spanning several hundred years of history, Toni Morrison used her historical imagination and her remarkable gifts of language to chronicle the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow, and their continuing fallout on the everyday lives of black Americans.

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