Toni Morrison is the author of such books as “The Bluest Eye”, “Paradise”, “Sula”, “Jazz”, “Song of Solomon”, “Love” and “Beloved”. She is a Pulitzer prize winner, Nobel prize winner for literature, and Former chair of the humanities at Princeton University.

In this 1-hour 1998 interview with Charlie Rose, Morrison talks about why she began to write, her book “Paradise”, how race is the least informing part about a character, her approach to literature, her response to criticism, and more.