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This author was a contributing editor of Asia magazine from 1941 to 1946

Trivia about pearl s. buck

  • Best-known for her books about China, she published her "American Triptych" as John Sedges
  • Her book "All Men Are Brothers" is actually a translation of a Chinese classic
  • In the 1930s she wrote biographies of her father & mother, who were Presbyterian missionaries to China
  • This "Good Earth" author was put on the good earth on June 26, 1892
  • 1938:"For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China"
  • She wrote of the Chinese people, "They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break"
  • In 1923 her first magazine article, "In China Too", appeared in the Atlantic Monthly
  • Her "House of Earth" trilogy includes "A House Divided" & "The Good Earth"
  • One of her last books was 1972's "China Past and Present"
  • Sadly, the manuscript of her very first novel was destroyed in a fire in Nanking
  • This author's dad was a missionary in China; she was a teacher there in the 1920s
  • Try to un"earth" a copy of "Imperial Woman", this American woman's 1956 novel about the last empress of China
  • "Sons", the second novel in her "House of Earth" trilogy, traces the lives of Wang Lung's 3 sons
  • In 1949 this Nobel Laureate founded Welcome House, an adoption agency specializing in Asian-American children

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