Recent Appearances



Radio Interviews and Invited Talks


Three Questions about Toni Morrison - The Meteor

The Stacks with Traci Thomas

Diverse Voices Book Review of Toni at Random with Hopeton Hay

Diane Rehm Book Club — Horse by Geraldine Brooks 

"A Look Back At The Life of bell hooks" NPR's 1A 

Grambling State University’s 120th Founders Convocation Speaker 

"GOP Efforts to Ban Toni Morrison's Beloved" Now at the Center of the Virginia Governor's Race" Democracy Now! 

"Toni Morrison's Beloved Used As Political Pawn In Virginia Gubernatorial Race." The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell 

"Toni Morrison: The Legacy of a Literary Legend" BBC, The Forum 

"An Evening with Lonnie Bunch" DC Public Library 

“Books of the Century: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon Literate Podcast  

The Bluest Eye” Diane Rehm Book Club   

"Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" GBH's Lunch Hour Live  

“Afterwords: Toni Morrison” BBC Radio Sunday Feature 

"Phillis Wheatley: For the Love of Freedom" Fierce: Stories of Women Who Changed the World  Podcast 

“Reparations: Is the Time Right Now?” WHUR’s The Daily Drum 

“Visionary: Toni Morrison.” NPR’s 1A 

“Remembering Toni Morrison, ‘A Friend of Our Minds’” NPR’s On Point with David Folkenflik  

Barracoon Tells the Story of the Last Slave in First Person” NPR’s 1A with Joshua Johnson  

Summer Reading 2017, Nonfiction.” WNYC's The Takeaway (July 6, 2017)

A Bleak Read: Why Dystopian Fiction is Popular Now.” 1A Show, WAMU 88.5 

Hidden Figures and the Modern Black Woman Scientist.” WHUR's The Daily Drum 

Can Reading Together Help Eliminate Cultural Blind Spots?” Kojo Nnamdi Show 

Readers’ Review: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride.” NPR’s Diane Rehm Show 

Self-Critical Women” WHUR’s The Daily Drum (with Harold Fisher) 

Race Relations Town Hall” WUSA-9TV with Bruce Johnson 

The Mysteries of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman” NPR’s On Point (with Tom Ashbrook) 

Readers’ Review of Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming” NPR’s Diane Rehm Show 

A New Novel by Harper Lee Stirs Controversy” NPR’s Diane Rehm Show 

Readers’ Review of Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche’s Americanah” NPR’s Diane Rehm Show 

Tribute to Maya Angelou” Roland Martin’s NewsOne Now 

Readers’ Review of Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones” NPR’s Diane Rehm Show 

Readers’ Review of E.L. Doctorow’s The March” NPR’s Diane Rehm Show 

DC By the Book” WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show 

 What It’s Like to Write a Woman’s Life” NPR’s Tell Me More 


Contact Dana A. Williams

The Graduate School | Howard University

d_williams@howard.edu | hello@danaawilliams.com


For Toni at Random Amistad/Harper Collins publicity inquiries,  contact Courtney Nobile at courtney.nobile@harpercollins.com. For literary inquiries for Dana A. Williams, contact Johanna Castillo at Writers' House, LLC | jcastillo@writershouse.com.