Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
by Peter Conn
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Peter Conn is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge, 1983), Literature in America: An Illustrated History (Cambridge, 1989), and Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography (Cambridge, 1996).
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- Pearl S. Buck
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- African-American Civil Rights Movement
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- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PS3503 .U198 .Z624 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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