Ninety-four years ago today, on February 18, 1931 (January 2, 1931 in the lunar calendar), American novelist and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison was born. Toni Morrlson (1931.2.18~) is an African-American woman writer. Born in Lorion, Ohio, steel town, the father of a blue-collar worker and the mother of a white domestic helper. In 1949, she was admitted to Howard University, which was open for blacks at the time, with honors, and studied English and Classics. After graduating from college, she went to Cornell University to specialize in the novels of Faulkner and Wolfe, and obtained a master's degree in this. After that, she taught at Texas Southern University and Howard University. In 1966, she was a senior editor at Random Press in New York, where she contributed to the publication of the autobiography of Muhammad Ali, the boxer, and the works of some young black writers. She edited The Book of Black People, which chronicled three hundred years of black American history and was known as the encyclopedia of black American history. Since the 1970s, she has lectured on African American literature at the State University of New York, Yale University, and Bard College, and has written 30 high-quality book reviews for the New York Times Book Review Weekly. Since 1987, she has been a professor at Princeton University, teaching literary creation. Morrison can be said to be a scholar-type novelist. Morrison's main achievement lies in her novels. Since 1970, she has published six novels: "The Bluest Eye" (1970), "Sula" (1973), "Song of Solomon" (1977, National Book Review Award), "Tar Child" (1981), "Baby" (1988, Pulitzer Prize-winning), "Jazz" (1992). These works are all about black life in the United States. They are delicate in brush, vivid in characters, language and storylines, and rich in imagination. Morrison is widely regarded in Western critics as inheriting the black literary tradition of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. She is not only familiar with black folklore, Greek mythology and the Christian Bible, but also benefited from the influence of Western classical literature. In terms of creative approach, her concise and crisp writing has the style of Hemingway, the mysterious and dark sense of the plot is similar to that of the southern writer Faulkner, and of course, it is obviously influenced by the magical realism of Latin America. But Morrison is more adventurous and innovative, eschewing the language used to describe black people in the past. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her "imaginative and poetic expression of a very important aspect of American reality in her novels."