#  On Morrison Explores Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's Work Like 'You've Never Encountered Before' 

 





May 16, 2025

 

 

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison has long been considered one of America's greatest writers and thinkers, but her larger-than-life persona often overshadows her actual work. No more.

Harvard professor and award-winning author Namwali Serpell's forthcoming [*On Morrison*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752344/on-morrison-by-namwali-serpell/) will take readers through Morrison's remarkable canon of work: her fiction and criticism, as well as her less famous plays and poetry. And who better to write it than a professor who teaches a course on Morrison herself?  
  
"At once accessible and uncompromisingly rigorous, *On Morrison* is a primer not only on how to read one of the most significant American authors of all time, but also on how to read great works of literature in general," an official synopsis promises. "This dialogue on the page between two Black women artist-readers is stylish, edifying and thrilling in its scope and intelligence."  
  
Read more [here](https://people.com/on-morrison-cover-reveal-exclusive-11729512).



 

 

 



 

 

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