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Fast, Fun Facts About The Good Earth
What Pearl's Dad Didn't Read
Oprah's Book Club  |  September 15, 2004
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Despite the fact that The Good Earth was published several months before his health declined, Pearl Buck's father, Absalom, went to his deathbed without reading his daughter's famous work.
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