Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by t...(展开全部)

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by t...(展开全部)

[美] 查尔斯·波蒂斯：美国当代小说家，生于1933年。大学攻读新闻专业，毕业后从事了六年记者工作。1964年，他从报社辞职，自此专注于小说创作，出版了五部长篇小说。他的作品犀利幽默，很多文学评论家将他的风格与马克•吐温的创作相提并论。 他广为流传的作品是《大地惊雷》。这部小说曾两次被改编成电影，其中2010年版由科恩兄弟执导，斩获奥斯卡10项提名。

[美] 查尔斯·波蒂斯：美国当代小说家，生于1933年。大学攻读新闻专业，毕业后从事了六年记者工作。1964年，他从报社辞职，自此专注于小说创作，出版了五部长篇小说。他的作品犀利幽默，很多文学评论家将他的风格与马克•吐温的创作相提并论。 他广为流传的作品是《大地惊雷》。这部小说曾两次被改编成电影，其中2010年版由科恩兄弟执导，斩获奥斯卡10项提名。

【美】安杰拉•达克沃思（Angela Duckworth） 曾作为美国国家科学基金会研究员获得其宾夕法尼亚大学的博士学位，目前为宾夕法尼亚大学心理学副教授。她于2013年荣获美国麦克阿瑟奖。 2013年，达克沃思进行了名为“坚毅：释放激情与坚持的力量”的TED演讲，并获得了全球各界人士的关注。截止目前，其点击量已超过1000万。 此外，她也是非营利性组织“性格实验室”（the Character Lab）的联合创始人，此机构旨在发展、宣传并支持提高学生成绩及心理健康的干预项目。

洛伊斯·比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。 比约德九岁起开始阅读科幻小说，浓厚的兴趣一直延续到她的大学时代。成为小说家之前，比约德曾沉迷于生物学，在1985年发表处女作《以物易物》后。很快就凭借中篇小说《悲悼的群山》荣获1989年的星云奖。 比约德的小说文笔流畅，心理活动描写细腻。以不同寻常的人物设置、紧张刺激的情节著称；其代表作“迈尔斯系列”目前已出版到第十四部。 比约德共夺取了五次雨果奖、两次星云奖，其中仅“迈尔斯系列”就获得了四次雨果奖。

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the Unit...(展开全部)

Patrimony , a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love, anxiety, and dread, accompanies his father through each fearful stage of his final ordea...(展开全部)

In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken repr...(展开全部)

In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes ’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken repr...(展开全部)