The author's life time and writing time of Historical Records.

Sima Qian (65438 BC+045 BC ~ 90 BC), a historian, thinker and writer of the Western Han Dynasty, was born in xia yang (now Nanzhichuan Town, hancheng city City, Shaanxi Province). He wrote Historical Records, and the Records of Literature and Art recorded eight poems about Sima Qian. Sima Qian

There is a volume of Sima Qian's works in Economic Annals of Sui Shu.

In the first year of Tai Chu (BC 104), China's first almanac, taichu calendar, was completed, and Sima Qian began to write Historical Records. In the second year of Liang Wudi (99 BC), Sima Qian was imprisoned for protecting Li Ling and sentenced to imprisonment (then known as corruption). In the first year of Taichu (96 BC), Sima Qian was released from prison.