The Good Earth (film) 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 film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Stephanie Bond (author) Stephanie Bond (author) Stephanie Bond, also known under the pseudonym Stephanie Bancroft, is an American born author (March 25, 1965) known for writing commercial fiction novels of romance and mystery. She published her first book, "Irresistible?", through Harlequin Enterprises in 1997 and a few years later left a corporate computer programming job and began writing full-time. During her career she has written dozens of romance and mystery novels, novellas, and short stories for publishers such as Harlequin, HarperCollins, and Random House. In 2011 Bond began self-publishing under her own imprint NeedtoRead Books. In 2015 Bond licensed her "Body Movers" series