《当代散文名家丛书》是中国最顶尖、最具影响力散文家品牌丛书，是当代散文史上第一次梳理，以 让社会认识中国散文的脉络。本套丛书作者为当代著名散文家，影响力广泛；散文话题具有高度思想性， 能引领社会思潮。《我的二十世纪》是本套丛书之一，内容选自当代著名作家宁肯的散文和随笔。宁肯被 誉为当代极具探索意识的作家之一。北京作协签约作家，"新散文"创作代表作家。代表作长篇小说《蒙 面之城》2000年获"全球中文网络最佳小说奖"，2001年获"《当代》文学接力赛"总冠军，2002年获 第二届"老舍文学奖"。现为《十月》杂志副主编。《我的二十世纪》作者以新散文的形式更深入地为读 者打开感知系统，表达了更为直接也更复杂的经验世界。书稿不是根本没有回忆、交代、说明，完全是在 场、是共时，是翱翔，带给读者无比的自由，无比巨大的时空。宁肯以平和的心态平气沉丹田，默默地搭 建自己独特的文字世界，找到自己作为作家的"制高点"--他对人与世界的更深远也更矛盾的思考和阐释。
Contemporary Prose Celebrities Series is one of China's top and most influential essayist brand series, is the combing of the contemporary prose for the first time, and lets the society know the structure of the Chinese prose. The author of this set of books is a famous contemporary essayist with wide influence, and the essay topic has high ideological content, leading the social ideological trend. My Twentieth Century is one of this set of books, and the content is chosen from the famous contemporary writer Ning Ken's prose and essays. Ning Ken is regarded as one of the contemporary writers with exploring consciousness. He is signed writer of Beijing Writers Association, representative of creative writers to "new prose". His representative novel is Mask City, winning the award for "best novel in the global Chinese network" in 2000, "championship of Contemporary literature relay" in 2001, the second annual "Lao She literary prize" in 2002. Currently, he is the deputy editor of October. The author of My Twentieth Century uses the form of new prose to deeply open awareness system for readers, expresses more directly and more complicated world of experience. The manuscript does not have no memories, metasomatism, instructions. It completely means in the field, synchronic, and soaring, bringing readers enormous freedom, enormous space and time. Ning Ken uses gentle mind state to flat gas, quietly building his own unique text world, finds the "commanding heights" as a writer - his more profound and more contradictory thinking and explaining towards people and the world.