2019届外研版高中英语必修五课文预读学案:Module 3 Period One
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  Walter Macken,the famous novelist,playwright and actor,was born in Galway in 1915.He first began to write at the age of eight.He joined the Taibhdhearc in 1934,while still attending school.

  It was there that he met his wife,Peggy Kenny,who was then a news editor.They fell in love,but her father,Tom Cork Kenny didn't agree to Peggy's choice,so they had to elope(私奔) and were married in Fairview Church in Dublin on February 9th,1937.They went to London where he worked as an insurance agent,selling insurance door to door,as he later wrote about in I Am Alone.

  Returning to Galway in 1939,Walter took up the post of theatre manager with the Taibhdhearc.At this time,he began to write both in Irish and English.By 1946 his first play in English,Mungo's Mansion,had been successfully staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin,and his first novel,Quench the Moon,had been accepted for publication.In 1948 he joined the Abbey for three years.

  In 1950 his third novel,Rain on the Wind,brought him international recognition,winning the Book of the Month Club and the Literary Guild Award.A successful US theatre tour gave him the strength to return home to Galway to establish a career for himself as a full-time writer.

  In all,he produced a body of work which finally came to ten novels,seven plays,three books of short stories and two children's books.Most of his novels have been translated into many languages.His last novel,Brown Lord of the Mountain,was published just before his death on April 22,1967.

根据短文判断正(T)误(F)

1.Walter Macken's father didn't approve of their marriage,so they had to elope.(F)

2.His last novel,Brown Lord of the Mountain,was published in 1967.(T)