Pearl S. Buck the university's north campus. U.S. President George H. W. Bush toured the Pearl S. Buck House in October 1998. He expressed that he, like millions of other Americans, had gained an appreciation for the Chinese people through Buck's writing. Pearl Buck's papers and literary manuscripts are currently housed at Pearl S. Buck International and the West Virginia & Regional History Center. Several historic sites work to preserve and display artifacts from Pearl's profoundly multicultural life: Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) was an American
Jeanne Mackin Mackin's novels have been written about by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie in The New York Review of Books, in which she described the mysteries written under the pen name of Anna Maclean as "historically accurate and entertaining". Jeanne Mackin Jeanne Mackin is an American author and a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. Her published novels include "A Lady of Good Family", "The Beautiful American", "The Sweet By and By", "Dreams of Empire", "The Queen’s War" and "The Frenchwoman". She published a trilogy of mysteries with New American Library, writing as Anna Maclean. The mysteries were also translated and