托妮·莫里森是美国黑人女作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州钢城洛里恩,父亲是蓝领工人,母亲在白人家做女佣。1949年她以优异成绩考入当时专为黑人开设的霍华德大学,攻读英语和古典文学。她所主编的《黑人之书》,记叙了美国黑人300年的历史,被称为美国黑人史的百科全书。1989年起出任普林斯顿大学教授,讲授文学创作。莫里森的主要成就在于她的长篇小说:《最蓝的眼睛》(1970年)、《秀拉》(1973年)、《所罗门之歌》(1977年,获美国图书评论奖)、《柏油孩子》(1981年)、《宠儿》(1987年,获普利策奖)等。1993年获诺贝尔文学奖。 Toni Morrison is an Afro-American female writer. Born in 1931 in Loyang, Ohio, his father was a blue-collar worker and his mother worked as a maid in a white house. In 1949, she was admitted with outstanding achievement at that time for the black opened Howard University, studying English and classical literature. Her book, The Black Books, chronicles the 300-year-old history of black Americans and is called the encyclopedia of black history in the United States. Since 1989, he has been a professor at Princeton University and teaches literature. Morrison’s major achievement lies in her novels: The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977 American Book Review Award), Asphalt Children “(1981),” Beloved "(Pulitzer Prize 1987). In 1993 won the Nobel Prize for Literature.