The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...

Final Crisis‘s origin is almost as interesting as the book itself. Morrison had been building a massive crossover since their days writing JLA, once that they tentatively titled “Hypercrisis”.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawmakers and literacy advocates in Ohio used the birthday of one of America’s most frequently banned authors on Tuesday to defend difficult texts that they fear could be ...