英语人物

Clarence Day Born in New York City, he attended St. Paul's School and graduated

from Yale University in 1896, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[7] The following year, he joined the New York Stock Exchange, and became a partner in his father's Wall Street brokerage firm. Day enlisted in the Navy in 1898, but developed cripplingarthritis and spent the remainder of his life as a semi-invalid.

Works[edit]：The Story of the Yale University Press (1920)

This Simian World (1920)

The Crow's Nest (1921)

Thoughts Without Words (1928)

God and my Father (1932)

In the Green Mountain Country (1934)

Scenes from the Mesozoic and Other Drawings (1935)

Life with Father (1935)

After All (1936; posthumous)

Life with Mother (1937; posthumous)

The World of Books (1938; posthumous)

Father and I (1940; posthumous)

欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威（Ernest Miller Hemingway，1899年7月21日－1961年7月2日），美国作家和记者，被认为是20世纪最著名的小说家之一。出生于美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥市郊区的奥克帕克，晚年在爱达荷州凯彻姆的家中自杀身亡。海明威一生中的感情错综复杂，先后结过四次婚，是美国“迷惘的一代”（Lost Generation）作家中的代表人物，作品中对人生、世界、社会都表现出了迷茫和彷徨。

在海明威一生之中曾荣获不少奖项。他在第一次世界大战期间被授予银制勇敢勋章；1953年，他以《老人与海》一书获得普利策奖；1954年，《老人与海》又为海明威夺得诺贝尔文学奖。2001年，海明威的《太阳照样升起》（The Sun Also Rises）与《永别了，武器》两部作品被美国现代图书馆列入“20世纪中的100部最佳英文小说”中。

海明威一向以文坛硬汉著称，他是美利坚民族的精神丰碑。海明威的作品标志着他独特创作风格的形成，在美国文学史乃至世界文学史上都占有重要地位。

海明威有着出色的语言驾驭能力，他常以最简单的词汇表达最复杂的内容，用基本词汇、简短句式等表达具体含义，用名词、动词来揭示事物的本来面目，丝毫无矫揉造作之感。从句式上看，海明威常用简短的陈述句进行语言表述，他认为没有必要用文字修饰雕琢来哗众取宠，只要将事物描述清楚就行，其他的则由读者来决定。语言风格：朴实、直观、含蓄情感、对话、男女关系

文学奖项

▪1954-12-10 诺贝尔文学奖《老人与海》（获奖）

▪1953-05-04 普利策奖《老人与海》[4]（获奖）

军事奖项

▪1944 第二次世界大战铜质奖章（获奖）

▪1918-07-18 第一次世界大战银制勇敢勋章[3]（获奖）

Fred Andrew Stone (August 19, 1873 – March 6, 1959) was an American actor. Stone began his career as a performer in circuses and minstrel shows, went on to act on vaudeville, and became a star on Broadway and in feature films, which earned him a star on

the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Legacy[edit]

Stone's autobiography, Rolling Stone, was published in 1945.

Select Filmography[edit]

∙Alice Adams (1935)

∙The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)

∙Quick Money (1937)

∙The Westerner (1940)

Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947)[2][3] was the son

of Pittsburghcoal and railroad baron William Thaw, Sr. Heir to a multi-million dollar mine and railroad fortune, Harry Thaw had a history of severe mental instability and led a profligate life. His historical legacy rests on one notorious act: on June 25, 1906, on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden, Thaw murdered renowned architect Stanford White who had been the lover of Thaw's wife, model/chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit.

In popular culture[edit]

∙The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955 movie)

∙The 1975 historical fiction novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow was adapted into: ∙The film Ragtime (1981)

∙The musical Ragtime (1998)

∙Dementia Americana – A long narrative poem by Keith Maillard, which won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry published in 1994 ∙My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon – play by Don Nigro

∙La fille coupée en deux – movie by Claude Chabrol (2007)

∙ A fictionalized Thaw also appears in Jed Rubenfeld's 2006 novel The Interpretation of Murder

Joe Gould (August 13, 1896[1] – April 21, 1950) was an American boxing manager best known for representing boxer James J. Braddock, dubbed "The Cinderella Man," who in 1935 upset Max Baer to become the World Heavyweight Champion. He also

managed Lightweight contender Ray Miller from 1930-1933.[2]