New Toni Morrison Novel Set For Spring Publication

Toni Morrison speaking at a dinner in honor of Chinua Achebe in February of 2008. Photo by Entheta.

Nobel Prize winning author and Lorain, Ohio native Toni Morrison has a new novel coming out in April of 2015. The novel is entitled God Help The Child, and it concerns the impact of childhood traumas on several adult characters. This will be Toni Morrison’s eleventh novel. Her last novel, Home, appeared in 2012. She has won numerous honors besides her 1993 Nobel during her career, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2012. Morrison turns eighty-four on February 18, 2015.

Patrick Kerin