Pearl S. Buck
Subtitle: A Cultural Biography
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780521639897
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women social reformers; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; American English; United States; China; American - General; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Buck, Pearl S.--(Pearl Sydenstricker), --1892; Buck, Pearl S.--(Pearl Sydenstricker),--1892-1973; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism-American - General; Americans; 20th century; Women novelists, American
First sentence: IN APRIL, 1899, six-year-old Pearl Sydenstricker wrote a letter from Chin-kiang, China, to the editor of the Christian Observer, in Louisville, Kentucky.