Honoring Toni Morrison

The University at Albany celebrated the life and works of novelist Toni Morrison, whose distinctive literary voice forever changed American literature, with a series of events that began on Friday, Jan. 24.

Morrison, who died in August 2019, was the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at UAlbany from 1984-89. While at UAlbany, she wrote parts of Beloved, a landmark novel of 20th century literature.