Quite by accident we have at the same time two excellent lives of writers, one American, one British, both Nobel laureates whose awards took the literary establishment somewhat by surprise. Pearl Buck ...

A new biography tells the story of Buck's Chinese childhood, as the daughter of zealous missionaries. In Pearl Buck in China, Hilary Spurling... 'Pearl Buck In China': A Child Across The Good Earth ...

Hilary Spurling’s magnetic new biography suffers no romantic delusion about the China that shaped American novelist Pearl Buck: It was a harsh land where brides were sold into slavery and newborn ...

Hilary Spurling's magnetic new biography, "Burying the Bones," suffers no romantic delusion about the China that shaped American novelist Pearl Buck: It was a harsh land where brides were sold into ...

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 ...

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"I tried to follow in her footsteps but China has changed so much," says Hilary Spurling of Pearl S. Buck, the subject of her biography. [Graeme Robertson / for China Daily] Hilary Spurling insists ...

Ever since her 1931 blockbuster The Good Earth earned her a Pulitzer Prize and, eventually, the first Nobel Prize for Literature ever awarded to an American woman, Pearl S. Buck's reputation has made ...

Hilary Spurling insists that despite appearances Western publishers have not suddenly become obsessed with Pearl S. Buck. Both the British writer's biography and Anchee Min's fictionalized work about ...