Dana A. Williams author of Toni at Random in conversation with Tayari Jones

Dana Williams, Morrison scholar and Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University is the author of the new best selling book that chronicles Toni Morrison's editing career, Toni at Random( Armistad 2025). We know Morrison as an award winning novelist and professor at Princeton; join us to hear this discussion about Morrison's impressive career as an editor for 20 years at Random House Publishing Company.

Tayari Jones is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selectionand won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.