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1、现代大学英语精读1Unit2GoingHomeGoingHomeabouttheauthorForseveralyears,heworkedasagraphicdesigner,whilestudyingatPrattInstitute.Thenin1960,hewenttoworkasareporterfortheNewYorkPost.Alongcareerinjournalismfollowed.HehasbeenacolumnistfortheNewYorkPost,theDailyNews,andNewYorkNewsday,andhaswonmanyj
2、ournalisticawards.Asajournalist,hehascoveredwarsinVietnam,Nicaragua,LebanonandNorthernIreland.Hehasalsocoveredmurders,crime,thepolice,alongwiththegreatdomesticdisturbancesofthe1960s.Hisworkhasalsobeenpublishedinallthemajormagazines,includingEsquire,NewYork,theNewYorkTimesMagazine;heis
3、currentlyonthestaffoftheNewYorker.GoingHomeabouttheauthorSincethe1950s,hehashadacontinuinginterestinMexico,livingthereforextendedperiods,visitingeveryyear.Forsixmonthsin1986,heservedaseditoroftheMexicoCityNews.Hehasoneadditionaldistinction:hehasbeeneditor-in-chiefofboththeNewYorkPosta
4、ndtheNewYorkDailyNews.GoingHomeabouttheauthorAtthesametime,Hamillhaspursuedacareerasafictionwriter,producing8novelsand2collectionsofshortstories.His1997novel,SnowinAugust,wasontheNewYorkTimesbestsellerlistforfourmonths,andhasbeenpublishedinmorethanadozenforeigneditions.Hismemoir,ADrin
5、kingLife,wasonthesameNewYorkTimeslistfor13weeks.Hehaspublished2collectionsofhisjournalism,abookabouttherelationshipoftoolstoart,andabookaboutNewYorkCity,alongwithWhySinatraMatters,anextendedessayonthemusicofthelatesingerandthesocialforcesthatmadehisworkpossible.GoingHomeabouttheauthor
6、HamillismarriedtotheJapanesejournalist,FukikoAoki.Hehastwogrowndaughters,oneapoet,theotheraphotographerfortheArizonaRepublicinPhoenix.HeandhiswifedividetheirtimebetweenNewYorkandCuernavaca,Mexico.GoingHomePeteHamillAboutFloridaStateflagStatesealFlorida(FL) the"SunshineState"Floridawas
7、namedbytheSpanishexplorerJuanPoncedeLeónin1513.Hecalledtheregion"LaFlorida",roughlytranslatedasLandoftheFlowers.Heprobablychosethisnamebecausehewasimpressedbythemanycolorfulflowers.StatehoodforFloridacamein1845(27thstate).St.Augustine,foundedbytheSpanishin1565,istheoldestpermanentEuro
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