Abstract：Harold Pinter's play has a unique style of its own. Its overall outlook of "uncertainty" reflects the author's singular way of recording the memory and interpreting the world. Playwrights not only adhere to the integrity and sincere attitude towards life bravely, but also consciously take the theater as a tool for their understanding and representing the reality. They extract all sorts of issues about the sense of human survival from personal experiences, calling for readers to uncover the truth hidden behind the words according to the clues provided by the script. Through examining Pinter's authoritative biography, interviews and public speeches, this paper aims to find the traces that the author's own experience has been infiltrated into his works in different stages of his writing career.

Key words：Harold Pinter; life experience; truth

Wu Xiao is a postgraduate at school of Humanity Culture in Guangzhou University. Her research is on twentieth-century Western fiction and theater. Recently she published “The Life Nowhere to Settle: An Analysis of Mary’s Identity Problem in The Grass Is Singing” (2015).