佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿是美国“哈莱姆文艺复兴”时期重要的黑人女作家。她机智幽默,才华横溢但命运多舛。但自二十世纪七十年代以来,特别自是艾丽斯·沃克对她重新发掘与评价之后,评论界对她的生平和作品的评价迅速升温。赫斯顿的代表作《他们眼望上苍》经历了被误解埋没到被认可并视为经典的过程。现在,这部小说被认为是“黑人文学的经典、妇女文学的经典、美国小说的经典”。 Zola Neil Heston is an important black woman writer in the United States during the Harlem Renaissance. Her witty, talented but fate. However, since the 1970s, especially since Alice Walker re-excavated her and evaluation, critics of her life and works of the rapid warming. Heston’s masterpiece, “They See God,” has undergone a process of being misunderstood to be recognized and regarded as a classic. Now, the novel is considered to be “a classic of black literature, a classic of women’s literature, a classic of American novels.”