Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic, best known for his novel Darkness at Noon (1940). Koestler attended the University of Vienna before entering journalism. Serving as a war correspondent for the British newspap
In full: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow Born: April 22, 1873,Richmond, Va., U.S. Died: Nov. 21, 1945,Richmond(aged 72) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize Notable Works: essay “Barren Ground” “In This Our Life” “The Romantic Comedians” ...
根据第一段关键句"Novelist Ernest James Gaines, whose poor childhood in a small Louisiana plantation town flourished the stories of black struggles that grew into universal stories of grace and beauty, has died.(小说家欧内斯特•詹姆斯•盖恩斯去世了,他在路易斯安那州的一个小种植园小镇度过了一个...
During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the ...
Cha was born on March 10, 1924, in Haining in Zhejiang Province and moved to Hong Kong in the 1940s. In 1955, he published his first martial arts novel The Book and the Sword, in New Evening Post, under the pen name Jin Yong coincidentally. ...
He joined the famous Royal Air Force and7 a pilot(飞行员) after World War Ⅱ_8His 6 duringout in 1939.World War lIIt was 9 that on his first flight, the plane ran out of fuel, and he almost died in the aircrash.He began writing in the 1940s.The last yearsHe moved to America ...
to be married a few months later. In 1940, their son David was born, and Golding interrupted his teaching career to join the Navy as World War II spilled out over the entire world. Shortly after Golding’s return from his service in the war, their daughter Judith was born in 1945. ...
the nature of courage.The themes are also explored among the tensions of late 1940s, and the teacher is the character burdened with the long past and with the expectations of a better future.Gaines’ characters achieved a power and timelessness that made him a distinctive voice in America lite...
During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but faile d. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clini c. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1940. while his wife was in hospital in the ...
Gao was born in 1940 in Jiangxi Province, Eastern China.His father worked in a bank and his mother was an actress.She 3 Gao's interests in the theater.When he left school, Gao studied French at the Department of Foreign Languages in Beijing.After he graduated from college, he left 4 ...