Pearl Buck Event Set for January 15
Thom Nickels, whose book about Philadelphia legends, Legendary Locals of Center City Philadelphia includes material about Pearl S. Buck, author of The Good Earth, will be discussing the author’s life and work at a Pearl S. Buck Writing Center event in connection with The Doylestown Bookshop on January 15 at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held in the Pearl S. Buck International Cultural Center at 520 Dublin Road, Perkasie, Bucks County, Pa.
The author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.”
Mr. Nickels, the author of ten books, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Two Novellas (1990) and awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. His poetry has appeared in Van Gogh’s Ear anthology (Paris) and in various Moonstone Arts Center Poetry Ink anthologies. He is presently working on Literary Philadelphia, due out in 2015.
The program is open to all through online registration at www.pearlsbuck.org/nickels. Donations for the Pearl S. Buck House will be accepted at the door. The Doylestown Bookshop will be hosting a sale of Thom Nickels’s books and Mr. Nickels will sign books after his presentation. A portion of the book sales proceeds will benefit Pearl S. Buck International.
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