Editing Toni Morrison (section)

=== Princeton years ===
From 1989 until her retirement in 2006, Morrison held the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Chair in the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].<ref name="nola" /> She said she did not think much of modern fiction writers who reference their own lives instead of inventing new material, and she used to tell her creative writing students, "I don't want to hear about your little life, OK?" Similarly, she chose not to write about her own life in a memoir or autobiography.<ref name=":9" />

Though based in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton, Morrison did not regularly offer writing workshops to students after the late 1990s, a fact that earned her some criticism. Rather, she conceived and developed the Princeton Atelier, a program that brings together students with writers and performing artists. Together the students and the artists produce works of art that are presented to the public after a semester of collaboration.{{sfn|Gillespie|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo5h9LqqanAC&q=morrison+princeton+atelier&pg=PA377 377]}}
[[File:Toni Morrison 2008-2.jpg|thumb|Morrison speaking in 2008]]

Inspired by her curatorship at the Louvre Museum, Morrison returned to Princeton in the fall 2008 to lead a small seminar, also entitled "The Foreigner's Home".<ref name="ReferenceA" />

On November 17, 2017, Princeton University dedicated Morrison Hall (a building previously called West College) in her honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/11/20/princeton-dedicates-morrison-hall-honor-nobel-laureate-and-emeritus-faculty-member|last=Dienst|first=Karin|title=Princeton dedicates Morrison Hall in honor of Nobel laureate and emeritus faculty member Toni Morrison|publisher=Princeton University|date=November 20, 2017}}</ref>