在美国有那么一批作家,他们孜孜不倦埋头于创作小说,不追名逐利,争一朝的得失,安心在文坛上的踽踽独步。彼得·泰勒就是这一类作家之一。他一九一七年生于田纳西州,从一九四六到六七年,曾经在北卡罗莱纳大学教英语文学和主持创作班,从一九六七年开始又在弗吉尼亚大学教授同样的课程。他笔下的故事大都写美国南方现当代的中产阶级生活和人物。一九四八年,他发表了第一部小说,名《漫长的四度音程》,一九五四年出版《桑顿的寡妇们》,一九五九年写了《快乐家庭一式相同》,一九六三年《里昂纳拉小姐的最后出现》,一九六九 There are so many writers in the United States who are diligently immersed in creative novels and are not chasing fame and fortune, winning victories in the past and reassuring themselves in the literary arena. Peter Taylor is one of these writers. He was born in Tennessee in 1917 and taught English literature and creative writing classes at the University of North Carolina from 1946 to June 2007. He taught the same course at the University of Virginia from 1967 . Most of the stories he writes are about middle-class modern life and people in the South of the United States. In 1948 he published his first novel entitled “Long Four-Tone Interlude”, “Thornton’s Widows” in 1954, “Happy Families in One and the Same” in 1959, 1963 “The Last Appearance of Miss Leonora”, 1969