"In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews--including her first and last--Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a 'national treasure') details not only her writing life, but also her other careers as a teacher, and as a publisher, as well as the gripping story of her family. In fact, Morrison reveals here that her Nobel Prize-winning novels, such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, were born out of her family's stories--such as those of her great-grandmother, born a slave, or her father, escaping the lynch mobs of the South"--
