"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Sometimes when correspondence is saved you run into these kinds of problems, so we have to guess a little bit at what she was looking at.

有时即使资料的确存在,可找不到麻烦就来了，因而，我只能去猜测她的大意了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Sometimes when correspondence is saved you run into these kinds of problems, so we have to guess a little bit at what she was looking at.

有时即使资料的确存在,可找不到麻烦就来了，因而，我只能去猜测她的大意了。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选