Author Biography

Shen Fu (1763 - 1825), the character Sanbai, the name Meiyi, was born in Changzhou (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) in the 28th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty. In the forty-second year of the Qianlong reign (1777), he accompanied his father to Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, to study. In 1784, Emperor Qianlong toured the south of the Yangtze River, and Shen Fu accompanied his father to welcome the Emperor. Later, he went to Suzhou to engage in the wine industry. In the thirteenth year of Jiaqing (1808), he wrote Six Records of a Floating Life, an autobiographical novel.

Six Records of a Floating Life***Six volumes, each with a sub-title, in order of "boudoir record music," "leisure record fun," "bumps and bruises record sadness," "wave travel record fast," "Zhongshan record experience," "health record way". According to the evidence, the last two volumes are forgeries, and the text is not as good as the previous one. The work is an autobiographical novel.

Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936) was a Soviet writer. In 1929, he was paralyzed and blinded, and in 1930, he used his own combat experience as a source of material for his novel "How Iron is Made", which was a great success and was well received by the public. In 1934, Ostrovsky was admitted as a member of the Soviet Writers' Association, and at the end of 1935, he was awarded the Order of Lenin by the Soviet government in recognition of his creative labor and outstanding contribution to literature. on December 22, 1936, due to the recurrence of serious illness, Ostrovsky died in Moscow.