Other gods

This novel was published in 1940, only two years after its distinguished author, Pearl Buck, received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first American woman to achieve this venerable status. Therefore, this work is the writer's first work with the Nobel mantle. Years earlier, she had won the Pulitzer Prize for her most famous novel of all time, The Good Earth. American writer Pearl Buck was born in 1892 to American parents who were Christian missionaries, which certainly left a clear impac...