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Pearl S. Buck, a cultural biography, Peter Conn

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non fiction

Pearl S. Buck

electronic resource

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903391226

Peter Conn

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

a cultural biography

One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.--, Provided by publisher

Preface: Rediscovering Pearl Buck -- Missionary childhood -- New worlds -- Winds of change -- The Good Earth -- An exile's return -- The prize -- Wartime -- Losing battles -- Pearl Sydenstricker