14-07-15 South African Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has died in Johannesburg aged 90. 南非诺贝尔获奖作家内丁戈迪默在约翰尼斯堡逝世，终年90岁。 Nadine Gordimer and Nelson Mandela were close friends The writer, who was one of the literary world's...

13-11-13 A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to have a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have an interpreter. During his lecture he told an amusing story which...

13-10-10 Once there was a king. He likes to write stories, but his stories were not good. As people were afraid of him, they all said his stories were good. One day the king showed his stories to a famous writer. He waited the writer to praise these stories....

13-09-25 In the Jin Dynasty (265-420) there was a famous writer whose name was Zuo Si who, however, was very naughty and did not like to study when he was a small kid. His father often got angry, and yet young Zuo Si was as naughty as ever and would not stud...

13-01-18 The great novelist had gone mad, but now there seemed to be some hope for his recovery. For six months, he had been sitting at his typewriter pounding out a novel. Finally, he pronounced it completed and brought the book to his psychiatrist, who eag...

12-04-25 All's Well That Ends Well has another author as well as William Shakespeare, according to research from Oxford University academics. 牛津大学学术社的研究显示，《终成眷属》除了威廉莎士比亚之外还有另一位作者托马斯米德尔顿。 Thomas Middleton has been r...

10-02-24 Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many stories and many of them were funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all over the world. Besides writing, he also liked hunting and fishing very much, so one year he went to...

09-12-21 Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis opened his talk with a question: How many of you really intend to be writers? All hands went up. In that case, said...

09-09-29 My husband and I are both writers. During dinner conversations, we often tell our children about our working days. It wasn't clear how much they absorbed until one day I overheard my seven-year- old, Lucy, cry out in frustration at her five-year-old...

09-08-28 Best-selling US writer Dominick Dunne has died aged 83 after losing his battle with bladder cancer, his actor son Griffin Dunne has confirmed. 美国畅销书作者Dominick Dunne的演员儿子Griffin Dunne证实道，Dunne在与膀胱癌的斗争中失利而逝世，享年83岁。 D...