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Fast, Fun Facts About The Good Earth
The Wang Lung in Pearl's Life
Oprah's Book Club  |  September 15, 2004
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Like her characters in The Good Earth, Pearl Buck and her first husband John Lossing Buck lived in both the Anhwei province and Nanking. When he first arrived in China, Lossing—the son of a farmer himself—tried his hand at planting wheat and battling seasonal floods just like Wang Lung.
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