Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973 American novelist whose works concentrated on Far Eastern themes, author of The Good Earth for which she received a Pulitzer Prize (1938 Original "d manuscript, signed in full in pencil at conclusion, 2pp. 4to., ca. 1940 Buck reviews fellow author Lin Yutang's novel Moment in Peking, and makes several dozen holograph corrections, deletions, and additions to the text. She calls the work: "...a social document in which present history was the warp and present people the woof of its web. . Light toning, otherwise very good.