论文部分内容阅读
美国文坛的年度盛事之一就是普利策奖的颁发,分为新闻和文学两大类共二十一小类的奖项成为了美国文化界各路英雄角逐的焦点。与新闻摄影类作品的视觉冲击、虚构类作品的离奇情节相比,传记类的作品囿于其业已盖棺定论的人物和事件,所受的关注相对较少。但是,被誉为美国当代最伟大的传记作家之一的罗恩·切诺(Ron Chernow)似乎总是能给读者带来惊喜。这位定居纽约的作家,总是以别具一格的方式撰写重要历史人物的传记,作品不断,每一部均是皇皇巨
One of the annual events in the American literary arena is the Pulitzer Prize. Divided into two major categories: News and Literature, a total of twenty-one subcategories of awards have become the focus of competition for various heroes in the American cultural world. Compared with the visual impact of news photography works and the bizarre episodes of fictional works, biographies have received less attention than anyone who has already done so. But Ron Chernow, hailed as one of America’s greatest biographers of the day, seems to always be pleasantly surprised. The New York-based writer, who always writes biographies of important historical figures in a unique way, works constantly, each one of them