Before MacKenzie Scott published her first novel or helped shape Amazon in its early days as an online bookseller, she found mentorship and guidance from one of America’s most acclaimed writers.
Scott credits author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison not only with shaping her writing, but also in helping her find her footing early in her career. Morrison, who was Scott’s creative-writing professor at Princeton University, put Scott on a path to publish her first novel and get one of her first jobs out of school, where she met now ex-husband Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
