Novelist · 1931 – 2019
Toni Morrison
Little-Known Facts
- As an editor at Random House, she championed and published many Black authors.
- Beloved was inspired by the true story of an enslaved woman, Margaret Garner.
Myths & Misconceptions
What is Beloved about?
Beloved follows a formerly enslaved woman haunted — literally and figuratively — by the trauma of slavery and a terrible choice she made, exploring memory, motherhood and freedom.