Toni Morrison cancels memoir contract due to 'not interesting' life

Tuesday 21st May

Toni Morrison cancels memoir contract due to 'not interesting' life

Posted at 7:21AM Tuesday 20 Mar 2012

As celebrities land book deals left, right and centre to detail the minutiae of their lives to date, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison has cancelled plans to write a memoir over concerns her life is not interesting enough.

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