帕特里克·怀特(Patrick White)于1912年出生在英国。父亲是澳大利亚农场主,母亲也出身于富有的农场主家庭。怀特出生时他的父母正在欧洲旅行。年底,当怀特满半岁时,被带回到了澳大利亚。他在悉尼郊区度过了童年。怀特自幼喜爱文学,九岁时阅读了莎士比亚的戏剧,深深为其中生动的情节所吸引。他从小就抑制不住创作欲望的冲动,凭着幼稚的想象力,写出了剧 Patrick White was born in England in 1912. My father is an Australian farmer, and my mother was also a rich farmer family. White was born his parents are traveling in Europe. By the end of the year, White was brought back to Australia when he was six months old. He spent his childhood in the suburbs of Sydney. White loved literature since childhood, read Shakespeare’s plays at the age of nine, and deeply attracted by the vivid plot. His childhood impulse to suppress creative desire, with naive imagination, wrote a drama