Hilary Spurling is the author of The Unknown Matisse, listed as one of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of 1998, and Matisse the Master, which won the Los Angeles Times biography prize in 2005.
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One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later... SEE MORE