文档介绍：My favorite author
Hans Christian Andersen
1805—1875
Danish fairy tale writer in 19th century
the founder of the world's fairy tales
On April 2, 1805, he was born in the slums of Odense on the Denmark Feiying Island. When he was a teenager, his father died and his mother remarried soon. Little Andersen suffered from poverty .He worked in several shops one after another. He did not receive formal education. He was interested in the stage, and dreamed to become a singer, actor or playwright.
He became a small supporting role in Royal Theatre in 1819. He was fired because loss of perfect voice later. From then on, he started to learn writing. But his script was unsuitable for show entirely. They were not used for the theater.
He attended a grammar school under the help of a theater director in 1822. In this year he wrote " the attempt of youth," a book published by his pen name William Christian Walter.
In 1827 ,he published his first poem "dying child“.
In 1831 he went to Germany to travel, the way home, wrote a travel notes. Italy in 1833 to create an opera of the "mermaid Aigeneite the United