艾丽斯·沃克是20世纪70年代以来美国文坛上最具影响力的女性黑人作家之一,她的长篇书信体小说《紫色》(1982)语言优美、情感至深,为她赢得了至高无上的文学荣誉。沃克凭借《紫色》一举多得了普利策小说奖、美国国家图书奖和全国书评协会奖三项文学大奖。该小说通过描写一个黑人小女孩的成长 Alice Walker is one of the most influential female black writers in the American literary world since the 1970s. Her long epistolary novel Purple (1982), with its beautiful language and deep emotions, won her the supreme Literary honor. Walker won the three prize of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Association Award in virtue of “Purple”. The novel describes the growth of a black little girl