Possible Clues:

• "Home" author Morrison
• 'Recitatif' author Morrison
• R&B artist Braxton
• '___ Morrison: The Pieces I Am'
• Singer Watson, a.k.a. Tones and I, with the 2019 hit 'Dance Monkey'
• Collette of "Hereditary"
• 'The function of freedom is to free someone else' speaker Morrison
• Morrison who wrote, 'No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind'
• Morrison who wrote ''Beloved''
• First name of the most-selected author in Oprah's Book Club