As one of the most outstanding and important African American women writers, Toni Morrison is the first black woman writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.

作为一个最优秀和最重要的美国黑人女作家，在1993年托妮·莫里森是第一个获得了诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女作家。

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So she charts the tradition not only of African-American women writers, from Phillis Wheatley, an 18th-century poet, to the Nobel-prize-winning Toni Morrison, but also of white women who wrote on slavery.

ECONOMIST: Women's literature in America