约翰·博因顿·普里斯特利/John Boynton Priestley
约翰·博因顿·普里斯特利（1894—1984），英国小说家、剧作家、评论家。曾就读于剑桥大学，1922年到伦敦，从事文学创作。他的作品被人们广为传阅的有小说《好伙伴》、《天使街》，剧本《危险的角落》、《我曾到过那里》等。其散文写作思想纯真细腻，文笔婉转流畅，语言生动活泼，让人在平实的生活中感受人生的乐趣。
Mr.Robert Lynd once remarked of Jane Austen's characters:hey are people in whose lives a slight fall of snow is an event.ven at the risk of appearing to this witty and genial critic as another Mr.Woodhouse,I must insist that last night's fall of snow here was an event.I was nea rly as excited about it this morning as the children,whom I found all p eering through the nursery window at the magic outside and chattering as excitedly as if Christmas had suddenly come round again.The fact is,ho wever,that the snow was as strange and enchanting to me as it was to th em.It is the first fall we have had here this winter,and last year I w as out of the country,broiling in the tropics,during the snowy season,so that it really does seem an age since I saw the ground so fantastical ly carpeted.It was while I was away last year that I met the three youn g girls from British Guiana who had just returned from their first visit to England.The two things that had impressed them most were the endless crowds of people in the London street,all strangers(they emphasized thi s,for they had spent all their lives in a little town where everybody k nows everybody),and the snow-covered landscape they awoke to,one morni ng when they were staying somewhere in Somerset.They were so thrilled a nd delighted that they flung away any pretence of being demure young lad ies and rushed out of the house to run to and fro across the glittering white expanses,happily scattering footmarks on the untrodden surface,j ust as the children did in the garden this morning.