Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
Cambridge University Press, 11/28/1996
EAN 9780521560801, ISBN10: 0521560802
Hardcover, 500 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
Preface
Rediscovering Pearl Buck
1. Missionary childhood
2. New worlds
3. Winds of change
4. The Good Earth
5. An exile's return
6. The prize
7. Wartime
8. Losing battles
9. Pearl Sydenstricker.