Description: Spurling, a much-honored biographer, unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured the lives of ordinary people in China in her novel "The Good Earth."
Brief description: Hilary Spurling is the author of The Unknown Matisse & Matisse the Master, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize and Whitbread Book of the Year in the UK, and the Los Angeles Biography Prize in the US in 2005. It has been translated into French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and many other languages.
Review Quotes: "An energized and engrossing portrayal of Pearl Buck. . . . Intensely sympathetic." -Jonathan Spence, The New York Review of Books