托尼·莫里森是继黑人作家赫斯顿、赖特和埃里森之后最有才华和成就的美国当代著名的黑人女作家。她于1993年获得了诺贝尔文学奖,是美国历史上第一位获此殊荣的黑人女作家。迄今为止,莫里森已发表了九部小说,分别是《最蓝的眼睛》(1970)、《秀拉》(1973)、《所罗门之歌》(1977)、《柏油娃》(1981)、《宠儿》(1987)、《爵士乐》(1992)、《乐园》(1998)、《爱》(2003)、《仁慈》(2008)。她的作品一直不断反映和探索非洲裔美国黑人的历史、命运和精神世界,是他们对物质世界的追求和对精神世界的思考的真实写照。 Toni Morrison is the most talented and accomplished American contemporary black woman writer after black writers Heston, Wright and Ellison. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and was the first black woman writer in the history of the United States to receive this award. To date, Morrison has published nine novels, The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Asphalt (1981), Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), Paradise (1998), Love (2003), Benevolent (2008). Her works have been constantly reflecting and exploring the history, destiny and spiritual world of Afro-Afro-American people, a true portrayal of their pursuit of the material world and thinking of the spiritual world.