Editing Toni Morrison (section)

=== Final years: 2010–2019 ===
In May 2010, Morrison appeared at [[PEN World Voices]] for a conversation with [[Marlene van Niekerk]] and [[Kwame Anthony Appiah]] about [[South African literature]] and specifically van Niekerk's 2004 novel ''Agaat''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4744/prmID/1984 |title=Toni Morrison and Marlene van Niekerk in Conversation with Anthony Appiah |work=PEN World Voices Festival |date=May 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005064305/http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/4744/prmID/1984 |archive-date=October 5, 2012 }}</ref>

Morrison wrote books for children with her younger son, Slade Morrison, who was a painter and a musician. Slade died of [[pancreatic cancer]] on December 22, 2010, aged 45,<ref name="Kachka" /><ref name=Claudette /> when Morrison's novel ''[[Home (Morrison novel)|Home]]'' (2012) was half-completed.<ref name="Kachka" />

In May 2011, Morrison received an Honorary [[Doctor of Letters]] degree from [[Rutgers University–New Brunswick]]. During the commencement ceremony,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/nobel-laureate-toni-morrison-speak-receive-honorary-degree-rutgers%E2%80%99-245th-commencement-may-15/20110208 |title=Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison to Speak, Receive Honorary Degree at Rutgers' 245th Commencement May 15 |work=Rutgers Today |date=February 8, 2011 }}</ref> she delivered a speech on the "pursuit of life, liberty, meaningfulness, integrity, and truth".

[[File:ToniMorrison WestPointLecture 2013.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|left|Morrison in 2013]]
In 2011, Morrison worked with opera director [[Peter Sellars]] and [[Mali]]an singer-songwriter [[Rokia Traoré]] on ''[[Desdemona (play)|Desdemona]]'', taking a fresh look at [[William Shakespeare]]'s tragedy ''[[Othello]]''. The trio focused on the relationship between [[Othello (character)|Othello]]'s wife [[Desdemona]] and her African nursemaid, Barbary, who is only briefly referenced in Shakespeare. The play, a mix of words, music and song, premiered in [[Vienna]] in 2011.<ref name="ReferenceA" /><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/arts/music/toni-morrisons-desdemona-and-peter-sellarss-othello.html|title=Toni Morrison's 'Desdemona' and Peter Sellars's 'Othello'|last=Sciolino|first=Elaine|date=October 25, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=May 3, 2017}}</ref>

Morrison had stopped working on her latest novel when her son died in 2010, later explaining, "I stopped writing until I began to think, He would be really put out if he thought that he had caused me to stop. 'Please, Mom, I'm dead, could you keep going&nbsp;...?{{' "}}<ref name=":5">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/toni-morrison|first=Christopher|last= Bollen|title=Toni Morrison's Haunting Resonance|magazine=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|date=May 1, 2012|access-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref>

She completed ''[[Home (Morrison novel)|Home]]'' and dedicated it to her son Slade.<ref name="Brockes" /><ref>Minzesheimer, Bob (May 7, 2012), [https://archive.today/20141220213150/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/story/2012-05-07/toni-morrison-home-books/54814002/1 "New novel 'Home' brings Toni Morrison back to Ohio"], ''[[USA Today]]''.</ref><ref>Mitra, Ipshita (May 14, 2014), [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/Toni-Morrison-builds-a-Home-we-never-knew/articleshow/16463000.cms "Toni Morrison builds a 'Home' we never knew"], ''The Times of India''.</ref> Published in 2012, it is the story of a [[Korean War]] veteran in the segregated United States of the 1950s who tries to save his sister from brutal medical experiments at the hands of a white doctor.<ref name=":5" />

In August 2012, [[Oberlin College]] became the home base of the Toni Morrison Society,<ref>[https://www.tonimorrisonsociety.org/society.html "Society History"], The Toni Morrison Society.</ref> an international literary society founded in 1993, dedicated to scholarly research of Morrison's work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.oberlin.edu/home/news-media/detail.dot?id=3873947|title=Oberlin College Establishes Partnership with Toni Morrison Society |publisher=Oberlin College|access-date=May 2, 2017|date=July 29, 2016 }}</ref><ref>Communications Staff (September 18, 2013), [https://www.oberlin.edu/news/toni-morrison-society-celebrates-20-years "Toni Morrison Society Celebrates 20 Years"], Oberlin College.</ref><ref>[http://www2.oberlin.edu/library/friends/perspectives/49.pdf "Morrison Society Office Dedicated"], ''Library Perspectives'' (newsletter of the Oberlin College Library), Fall 2013, no. 49, p. 5.</ref>

Morrison's eleventh novel, ''[[God Help the Child]]'', was published in 2015. It follows Bride, an executive in the fashion and beauty industry whose mother tormented her as a child for being dark-skinned, a trauma that has continued to dog Bride.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/29/god-help-the-child-toni-morrison-review-novel|title=God Help the Child by Toni Morrison review – 'incredibly powerful'|last=Gay|first=Roxane|author-link=Roxane Gay|date=April 29, 2015|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=April 29, 2017}}</ref>

Morrison was a member of the editorial advisory board of ''[[The Nation]]'', a magazine started in 1865 by Northern abolitionists.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/toni-morrison/|title=Toni Morrison|website=[[The Nation]]|access-date=April 29, 2017|date=April 2, 2010}}</ref>