老舍1918年夏天，老舍以优秀的成绩由北京师范学校毕业，被派到北京第十七小学去当校长。
1924年夏老舍应聘到英国伦敦大学东方学院当中文讲师。在英期间开始文学创作。长篇小说《老张的哲学》是第一部作品，由1926年7月起在《小说月报》杂志连载，立刻震动文坛。以后陆续发表了长篇小说《赵子曰》和《二马》。奠定了老舍作为新文学开拓者之一的地位。
1930年老舍回国后，先后在齐鲁大学和山东大学任教授。这个时期创作了《猫城记》、《离婚》、《骆驼样子》等长篇小说，《月牙儿》、《我这一辈子》等中篇小说，《微神》等短篇小说。
1944年开始，创作近百万字的长篇巨著《四世同堂》。他担任全国文联和全国作协副主席兼北京文联主席，是全国人大代表和全国政协常委。
1966年中，老舍不堪躏辱投湖自尽。
The summer of 1918, Lao She with excellent results from the Beijing Normal School graduate, was sent to Beijing to be president of the 17th primary school.
Lao She accepted the position of the summer of 1924, University of London Institute of Oriental Studies lecturer when Chinese. In the British literature during the start. Novel "s Philosophy" is the first work by July 1926 at "Short Story Monthly" magazine serials, and immediately shock literature. Been published after the novel "The Master said Zhao," and the "horse." Lao She laid a new literature as one of the pioneers status.
LAO She returned to China in 1930, worked in the University and Shandong University Qilu a professor. This period created the "Cat City," "Divorce," "camel like" and other novels, "Crescent Moon", "my life" and other novella, "Micro-God" and other short stories.
1944, creating nearly a million words of the full-length masterpiece, "Four Generations." He served as Quanguowenlian and the National Writers Association and Beijing Federation of Literary and Vice-Chairman of the NPC deputies and CPPCC Standing Committee.
In 1966, the Lao Lin unbearable insult to vote Lake suicide.