New chapter for women authors: Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison join the ranks of Plato and Demosthenes at Columbia University library

The writing’s on the wall.

Thirty years after a Columbia University student and her friends launched a graduation protest and hung a banner on a campus library with the names of women authors, the school is getting on board.

Laura Hotchkiss Brown and her buddies tried to hang a 140-foot banner...