From 2004: Toni Morrison on a writer’s life

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Toni Morrison, the author of such acclaimed works as “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved,” “Jazz,” and “Love,” died on Monday, August 5, 2019 at the age of 88. In this profile for “CBS Sunday Morning” which aired on April 4, 2004, the writer talked with correspondent Martha Teichner about her youth and education, and about the two most important things in her life: to mother her children, and to write.