The Good Earth (film) the Best Actress award (Luise Rainer), the film won for Best Cinematography. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty. The
John Purcell (author) John Purcell (author) John Purcell (born 1972) is an Australian author whose novels include "The Secret Lives of Emma" (under the pseudonym Natasha Walker) published by Penguin Random House in 2012 and "The Girl on the Page", due to be published by HarperCollins Australia in October 2018. He is also the Director of Books at Booktopia (Australia's largest online bookseller) and Angus & Robertson Bookworld. John appears regularly in print, on television and at Australian writers festivals to talk about books and the publishing industry. John Purcell was born in Sydney and grew up in the wealthy lower-north-shore suburb of