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At 81, Toni Morrison, who’s won the Nobel Prize for her novels about the sorrows and joys of African-American life, has a new book and a new hip. Her 10th novel, Home (Knopf, $24), released Tuesday, features an angry and troubled black Korean Warveteran in the 1950s. It’s set mostly in Georgia, where Morrison has never lived. But it’s brought her from her home in New York back [...]

Novelist Toni Morrison tells fans in Ohio she canceled plans to write a memoir because “there’s a point at which your life is not interesting.” The Plain Dealer reports that Morrison, a native of nearby Lorain, says she signed a contract for her next book to be a memoir but later canceled it, saying she’d rather write fiction. The 81-year-old [...]