The Boys in the Boat外国文学导读指南系列丛书.pdf

AbOuT THE AuTHOR Daniel James Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Diablo Valley College, the University of California at Berkeley, and UCLA. Brown taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford before becoming a technical writer and editor. He now writes narrative nonfiction books full time. Brown’s primary interest as a n writer is in bringing compelling historical events to life as w o r vividly and accurately as possible. B V n i b Brown lives in the country outside of Seattle, o R y Washington with his wife, two daughters, and an b o t assortment of cats, dogs, chickens, and honeybees. o h p When he is not writing, he is likely to be birding, gardening, fly fishing, reading American history, or chasing bears away from the bee hives. AbOuT THE bOOk* The Boys in the Boat celebrates the 1936 U.S. men’s Olympic eight-oar rowing team—working class boys who stormed the rowing world, transformed the sport, and galvanized the attention of millions of Americans