1906年生于南京,全家靠他父亲当教員或职員維持生活,为了謀职,不得不流寓各地。他父亲虽說是个受过旧教育的人,却很开明,給兒子很大的影响。張天翼1924年在杭州讀完中学,曾学繪画,也曾进过一年大学。当时,一方面因为家庭負担不起学費,另方面他对自己学的課程感到失望,于是便輟学了。走出校門之后,当过小职員、記者、教員,常常遭到失業的痛苦。在这一段时期里,他不断地写着或譯着投不出去的稿子。1928年曾写过一个短篇“三天半的夢”,被魯迅編的“奔流”采用了,这才鼓励他繼續写下去。1930年發表了“从空虚到充实”等短篇,1931年發表了“二十一个”,这些作品給当时处在單純的感 Born in Nanjing in 1906, the whole family relies on his father as a teacher or staff member to maintain his or her life. Although his father was an educated person, he was very open-minded and had a great influence on his son. Zhang Tianyi 1924 finished high school in Hangzhou, had studied painting, also had a year into the university. At that time, on the one hand, he was dropped out of school because he could not afford the tuition fees on the one hand and was disappointed with his courses. Out of school, worked as a clerk, journalist, teacher, often suffer the joblessness. During this period, he constantly wrote or translated the manuscripts that could not be cast. In 1928, he wrote a short “three-and-a-half-day dream” and was adopted by Lu Xun’s “Rush”, which encouraged him to write down. 1930 published “from emptiness to enrichment” and other short articles, published in 1931, “twenty-one”, these works at the time was in a simple sense