畅销小说《廊桥遗梦》作者是住在爱荷华州的经济学教授——罗伯特·詹姆斯·沃勒。1990年的一个夏天,沃勒因工作经过麦迪逊县,归家途中,他驾驶汽车穿过人烟稀少的道路,两边是高高的玉米田,在走过几座很有特色的桥后,孤单开着车的沃勒突然有一种灵感,就在余下的路途中,他在心里打下了这篇小说的腹稿。回到家中,他一口气在两星期内写 The best-selling novel “Cangshi” is written by the economics professor living in Iowa - Robert James Waller. One summer of 1990, Waller worked on a journey through Madison County and on his way home driving a car through sparsely populated cornfields on either side of tall cornfields, lonely after walking through some very distinctive bridges Waller suddenly had a car in the car, on the rest of the way, he laid the heart of this vestige of the novel. Back home, he wrote in two weeks in a breath