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Toni Morrison and Julia Leigh
“At one stage, I thought of putting my manuscript on hold and beginning something entirely different. Toni shook her head: ‘No, no.’” Protégée Julia Leigh, speaking about the encouragement she received from Toni Morrison. For the first part of mentoring year, Julia Leigh lived in Paris, travelling to Princeton in winter 2002 to meet Morrison. In early April 2003, Leigh moved to New York City to be in close proximity to her mentor. Throughout the year she worked on her second novel, sending sections of it to Morrison for comments and discussions. Leigh reported that their meetings and Morrison’s support and close reading of the work-in-progress were extremely beneficial.