And it'll be published soon, too, after being found in a storage locker.
From a piece in the New York Times...
The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned
to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee, said Jane
Friedman, the chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media, the
publisher.
Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is believed to have completed the manuscript for the
book, “The Eternal Wonder,” shortly before she died of cancer in 1973,
said her son Edgar S. Walsh, who manages her literary estate.
The novel is one of dozens that the prolific Buck completed during her
lifetime, a tumultuous eight decades that took her as a young child from
her birthplace, Hillsboro, W.Va., to China, where her father worked as a
Presbyterian missionary. While in her late 30s, she wrote “The Good
Earth,” her second and most famous novel, a compassionate portrait of
Chinese farmers that was published in 1931 and became the
biggest-selling novel in the United States for two successive years.
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