Pearl S.Buck Collection, 1932-1956.

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Pearl S.Buck Collection, 1932-1956.

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079821

The collection consists primarily of carbon copies of manuscripts for Pearl S. Buck's short stories, essays, speeches, and screenplays. Some copies include corrections and additions in Buck's handwriting. The collection also includes publications by other authors including an exhaustive bibliography of Buck's work by Lucille S. Zinn of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Inc.

.84 linear ft. (2 document boxes)

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6347510

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Sai, Zhenzhu, 1892-1973

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Sedges, John, 1892-1973

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....