普里斯特利（J.B. Priestley, 1894-1984，英国作家、剧作家）
A brief introduction to the author
J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley
--- born in Bradford, England, in 1894
--- died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1984
J. B. Priestley
--- British journalist
--- novelist
--- playwright
--- essayist
Priestley's output was vast and varied - he wrote over one hundred novels, plays, and essays.
J. B. Priestley
His best-known play:
An Inspector Calls (1946)
his novels:
The Good Companions (1929)
Angel Pavement (1930)
established him as a successful popular novelist.
J. B. Priestley
Other novels:
They Walk in the City (1936)
The Doomday Men (1938)
Let the People Sing (1939)
Festival at Farbridge (1951)
J. B. Priestley
--- more successfully than any other novelist in the first half of the 20th century
--- thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Englishman
--- a being whose character he outlines with vigor and good humor