Pearl S. Buck Biographies - Fighting order Angel and The Exile, 1936 - FIRST EDITION/Third Printing & Book of the Month Club Editions

Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck, was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. Known for fiction, during her career she wrote two biographies -- one of her father, The Fighting Angel, and one of her mother, The Exile -- both copyrighted in 1936. This pairing includes both biographies. The Fighting Angel is a Book of the Month Club edition. The Exile is a FIRST EDITION, third printing.

THE FIGHTING ANGEL
Courtesy of Goodreads: The biography of the father of Pearl S. Buck. "A vigorous biography of the author's father, a lonely adventurer ranging the turbulent interior of old China through the hazards of famine, banditry and revolution." from the cover of the first edition, published in order 1936.

• Linen Hardcover
• Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock
• Book of the Month Club Edition (newsletter included), 1936
• 302 pages
• No dust jacket
• In great condition. Tight binding. Almost no shelf wear on the covers. Pages are clean and unmarked.
• Measures 8 5/8" x 5 7/8"

THE EXILE
Courtesy of Goodreads: The biography of the mother of Pearl S. Buck, a portrait of an American woman in China.

• Linen Hardcover
• Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock
• FIRST EDITION, Third Printing, 1936
• 315 pages
• No dust jacket
• In great condition. Tight binding. Almost no shelf wear on the covers. Pages are clean and unmarked.
• Measures 8 5/8" x 5 7/8"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 赛珍珠), was an American writer and novelist. In October 1892, her family took the 4-month-old baby girl to China. As the daughter of missionaries to China, and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang. The family spent their summers in a villa in Kuling town, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." She was the first American woman to win the prize.

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