Novelist Toni Morrison broke some hearts on Wednesday when she told fans in Ohio that she has canceled plans to write a memoir. The Associated Press reports that the 81-year-old Nobel laureate broke the news while speaking to students at Oberlin College, saying, "There's a point at which your life is not interesting." She also read from her latest novel, Home.
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The Toni Morrison Society, which researches her works, used the event to announce the establishment of a residency at the school. Morrison, a native of nearby Lorain, told the Plain Dealer that she had signed a contract to write a memoir but later canceled it, saying that she'd rather write fiction.
We wish Morrison would change her mind about writing a memoir. We bet that her life is at least as interesting as her stories.
Read more at the Associated Press.
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