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This author of "The Good Earth" also wrote the heartwarming "Christmas Day in the Morning" |
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2020-06-02 |
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In addition to her novels, she also wrote a children's book about Sun Yat-sen & an "Oriental Cookbook" |
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2015-03-30 |
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She learned Chinese from her tutor Mr. Kung & went on to win the 1938 Nobel Prize & be active in civil rights |
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2013-07-17 |
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"Fighting Angel" & "The Exile" were 1936 biographies of her parents, missionaries in Asia |
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2012-03-08 |
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Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7 |
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2007-12-03 |
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She's noted for her novels of life in China |
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2006-12-25 |
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In 1949 this Nobel laureate founded Welcome House, an adoption agency specializing in Asian-American children |
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2001-07-02 |
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"The Exile" was her acclaimed biography of her missionary mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker |
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1997-03-11 |
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From 1921 to 1931 she was a university teacher in Nanking |
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1995-01-02 |
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She wrote "The Exile", a biography of her missionary mother, 5 years after "The Good Earth" |
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1994-02-23 |
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"The Dragon Fish" & "The Chinese Children Next Door" are among the books she wrote for children |
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1994-01-03 |
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"Fighting Angel" was this author's 1936 biography of her father, a missionary in China |
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1993-06-04 |
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In addition to writing novels, she also translated the Chinese classic "Shui Hu Zhuan" |
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1990-10-16 |
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Her name on her tombstone at Green Hills Farm near Perkasie, Pennsylvania is in English & Chinese |
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1990-09-14 |
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Before achieving fame with "The House of Earth" trilogy, this author was a teacher in China |
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1990-03-06 |
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"Dragon Seed" author who wrote several novels with an American setting using the pen name John Sedges |
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1989-03-02 |
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West Virginian who taught psychology, divorced a missionary, & wrote novels about China |
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1987-01-30 |
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Though she wrote much about China, she called her native W.V. "World's most beautiful place" |
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1986-02-24 |
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