Toni Morrison is one of the most prominent black writers in the twentieth-century American literature and the first black woman novelist to win the Nobel Prize.

• 托妮·莫里森是20世纪美国文坛中众多黑人作家中一颗璀璨的明星，也是第一位摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠的黑人女作家。