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CTM Monday: Toni Morrison talks new award

Toni Morrison, one of America's most celebrated authors, has already received a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

She'll soon add one more honor to that list: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Morrison is slated to receive the award on May 29.

Toni Morrison: I won't write a memoir, my life is not interesting

On "CBS This Morning" Monday, Morrison will talk about that honor, as well as her latest novel "Home," a story about a Korean War veteran's desperate journey to save his younger sister.

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