Some 3,000 people crowded into the halls of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to pay their respects.
In December of 1987, six years before she would win her Nobel Prize, Toni Morrison stood in front of the crowd of thousands that filled the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the Upper West Side of New York. They had gathered for the funeral service of James Baldwin, the first held in that cathedral since the death of Duke Ellington over a decade prior.
More than 30 years later that same theme of finding a home in the clear, clear view of someone now gone echoed at St. John the Divine on Thursday, during a memorial celebration of Morrison’s life. Some 3,000 people crowded into the halls of the cathedral after waiting in a line that, a full hour before the 4 p.m. start time, snaked around the corner.
Morrison’s 19-year career as an editor at Random House is often refigured in the public imagination as a prelude to her writing career, the way she bided time when she wasn’t writing on subways and at the kitchen table. But Thursday her role as editor took, if not center stage, at least a starring role. “Editing was her job, but it was also her activism, her community work,” Remnick said.
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