美国黑人女作家艾丽丝·沃克以她的长篇小说《紫色》(1982)确立了自己在世界文坛的地位,成为美国黑人文学中仅次于托尼·莫里森的一位健将。据美国《纽约时报书评》杂志1998年9月28日报道,最近她又出版了一部长篇小说新作《由于我父亲的微笑》 Alice Walker, a black American woman writer, established her position in the world literary world by her novel “Purple” (1982) and became the second most popular African American writer after Tony Morrison. According to a report by the New York Times Book Review magazine dated September 28, 1998, she recently published another new novel “My Father’s Smile”