The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China.

"Ms. Spurling is an exquisite writer, and "Pearl Buck in China "is beautifully paced."

--"The Wall Street Journal"

""""Pearl Buck in China" is one of those exceedingly rare biographies where the reader senses the most powerful connection between author and subject, enabling remarkably sensitive understanding and insight."

-- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"An energized and engrossing portrayal of Pearl Buck. . . . Intensely sympathetic."

--Jonathan Spence, "The New York Review of Books"

"Penetrating. . . . Ms. Spurling writes well, and with real feeling. . . . The resulting portrait is a complicated one, but it has an absorbing glow. . . . It's a good story, easily as curious as any Buck herself put to paper."

--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times"