艾丽斯·沃克从70年代初开始文学创作至今,一直活跃在当代美国文坛上,其影响力堪比另一位美国黑人女作家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者托尼·莫里森。作为一位著述颇丰的黑人女小说家、诗人、散文家和黑人女权主义文学理论家,作为美国文学史上第一位获得普利策文学奖殊荣的美国黑人女作家,作为因其代表作《紫色》被好莱坞 Alice Walker literary creation from the early 70s up to now, has been active in the contemporary American literary arena, its influence comparable to another black woman writer, the Nobel Prize winner Tony Morrison. As a well-documented black female novelist, poet, essayist and black feminist literary theorist, as the first American black woman writer in the history of American literature to receive Pulitzer Prize for Literature, as a result of his representative work “purple ”Is Hollywood