Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to i...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

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安德烈•亚历克西斯(André Alexis) 加拿大作家。1957年生于特立尼达，目前定居多伦多。1998年凭第一部长篇小说《童年漫游者》获加拿大最佳处女作奖，并与艾丽丝·门罗同获崔灵文学奖。已出版多部小说，其中《十五条狗》获吉勒文学奖、罗杰斯作家联合会小说奖、坎贝尔文学奖三项大奖。

安德烈•亚历克西斯(André Alexis) 加拿大作家。1957年生于特立尼达，目前定居多伦多。1998年凭第一部长篇小说《童年漫游者》获加拿大最佳处女作奖，并与艾丽丝·门罗同获崔灵文学奖。已出版多部小说，其中《十五条狗》获吉勒文学奖、罗杰斯作家联合会小说奖、坎贝尔文学奖三项大奖。

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colou...(展开全部)

Maria Montessori describes the child with warmth and the exactness of a scientist. She also discusses the array of materials and techniques needed to release his learning potential.

蒋彝（Chiang Yee，1903年5月19日－1977年10月26日），中国画家、诗人、作家、书法家。字仲雅，又字重哑，笔名“哑行者”。“中国文化的国际使者”。江西九江人。最为人津津乐道的事，乃翻译Coca Cola为“可口可乐”。他出生于江西九江，自幼随父亲习画，并接受完整的私塾教育，之后政局动荡，日军侵华，他移居庐山山脚，对自然环境与旅行移动保持着极高敏锐的心。日后他任九江县县长，为政清廉，且禁止外商公司贿赂、非法购地，与当政者发生矛盾，出走英国。而此去英国，成为一生命数之转折。他在英国旅居伦敦，被东方学院聘为讲师，讲授东方文化，对活跃于艺文界，1937年出版《湖居画记》以中国笔墨描绘湖居景致，后以Silent Traveller为笔名写作游记，虽然三十来岁才熟用英文，但无碍其文章之精巧、心裁之别出，作品成为西方旅行文学经典，相较之下，他在中...(展开全部)