这个世界之所以带给我们许多愉悦和亮色,大抵是因为偶尔出现一些事情给我们以惊喜。比如海明威的同窗好友、菲茨杰拉德的同时代作家约翰·奥哈拉,在相当长一段时间里,他并未引起中国读者的关注,在中国学者所著的美国文学史中也鲜有论及——文学史总会有意无意地忽略一些作家和事件的。因而,我们可以理解,即使是在哈佛大学萨克文·伯柯维奇教授主编的八卷本《剑桥美国文学史》中,约翰·奥哈拉 The reason why the world has brought us many pleasures and bright colors, probably due to the occasional surprise to us. Such as Hemingway’s classmate friend, Fitzgerald’s contemporary writer John O’Hara, for a long period of time, he did not draw the attention of Chinese readers, the Chinese scholars in the history of American literature also rarely On - General History of Literature deliberately or unintentionally ignored some writers and events. Thus, we can understand that even in the eight-volume Cambridge History of American Literature, edited by Professor Sukkon Berkovich of Harvard University, John O’Hara