The award-winning Black feminist author Toni Morrison converted to Roman Catholicism in her teens, taking Anthony as her baptismal name and using Toni as a pen name. She wrote fiction featuring slavery, racism, sexuality, rape, profanity, police brutality and controversial aspects of culture. Her work can be difficult to read for white people and for Roman Catholics.
James Keane's new book, Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes: 50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands Who Challenge and Change Us, focuses on bestselling firebrand Catholic writers like Morrison.
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