[Papers from the Nora Stirling Collection relating to Pearl S. Buck's acquaintance with Lin Yutang and material related to the publication of Buck's novel, The good earth] [manuscript]. 1985.

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[Papers from the Nora Stirling Collection relating to Pearl S. Buck's acquaintance with Lin Yutang and material related to the publication of Buck's novel, The good earth] [manuscript]. 1985.

The Nora B. Stirling Collection consists of the materials used by the donor in writing the biography, Pearl Buck: A woman in conflict, published by New Century Publishers in 1983 and fills seventeen boxes. The folders and envelopes containing these materials are Stirling's, organized in her somewhat idiosyncratic way. Boxes 4 through 8 hold the sources for the biography, filed most often by the dates of Buck's life, but occasionally by topic or the name of an influential person. The Collection is an extraordinarily rich source of biographical material on Pearl S. Buck, as well as a fascinating record of one writer's strategy for gathering and organizing information and composing a biography.

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Yutang, Lin, 1895-1976

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Lin Yutang (Chinese: 林語堂 ; October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West....

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....

Stirling, Nora B., 1900-

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