托尼·莫里森是20世纪美国文学史上杰出的黑人女作家。她于1993年荣膺诺贝尔文学奖,成为第一位获得该项殊荣的非洲裔美国女作家。作为一名黑人,托尼·莫里森植根于美国黑人独特的历史、传说和现实生活,将黑人小说推向一个新的高度,从而使黑人文学也由边缘迈进美国文学的主流。 Tony Morrison is an outstanding black woman writer in the history of American literature in the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and became the first African American woman writer to receive the award. As a black man, Tony Morrison is rooted in the unique history, legend and real life of the Afro-Americans and takes the black novels to a new height. As a result, Afro-American literature has also been marketed to the mainstream of American literature.