吴道弘,曾名德堪,1929年出生于江南水乡——浙江省嘉善县的商人家庭。襁褓之时,即遭父丧,自幼母亲督课甚严,并受舅家影响,酷爱诗书典籍,打下了中文的根底。嘉善沦陷时期,他在本县的初中学习。1946年进嘉兴秀州中学高中部学习,开始有比较广泛的基础知识。在中学时代就爱好写作,参加级刊、校刊的编辑工作。1950年2月在上海诚明文学院中国文学系肄业后,考入上海三联书店任校对。同年8月调北京三联书店总管理处编审部工作。三联实行编校合一制度,他除担任责任校对外,同时参加版式设计、作者通联和稿件审读工作。第二年8月调人民出版社后一直到现在。 Wu Daohong, formerly known as Dankan, was born in 1929 in the Jiangnan Water Village - a merchant family in Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province. At the time of his death, he was funeral and mom. His mother practiced very intensively and was influenced by his uncle’s family. He loved Chinese books and books and laid the foundation of Chinese. During the fall of Jiashan, he studied in the junior high school of this county. 1946 Jiaxing Xiuzhou high school learning, began to have a more extensive basic knowledge. In middle school hobby writing, participate in grade, school editorial work. February 1950 in Shanghai Cheng-Wen College of Chinese Literature Department of Industry, admitted to the Shanghai Sanlian book store any pair. In August the same year, Beijing Joint Publishing bookshop management department. The triple system of editing and school integration, in addition to his responsibilities as a proofreading, at the same time to participate in layout design, the author of the Federation and manuscript review. The second year in August after the people’s Publishing House until now.