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enlisted a young dancing instructor, Theodore or Ted Harris
(born Fred L. Hair), to teach her two youngest daughters; he became her constant companion and her colleague in philanthropic activity.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Pearl S. Buck
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set up the Pearl S. Buck Foundation
, a charity serving the mixed-race children fathered by US soldiers in Asian countries. Buck's recent protégé Theodore or Ted Harris
was to manage its financial affairs...
Friends, Associates
Pearl S. Buck
Theodore Harris
was Buck's companion at the end of her life, and collaborated with her on her official biography.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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Residence
Pearl S. Buck
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, who had bought a plot of land in Vermont in the 1950s, lived there during the last four years of her life with Ted Harris
, first in a cabin originally built by...
Textual Production
Pearl S. Buck
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edited a biography of herself published by her sister Grace
(under the pseudonym of Cordelia Spencer) in 1944: The Exile's Daughter. She collaborated with Theodore Harris
on For Spacious Skies and the...
Textual Production
Pearl S. Buck
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's last novel about China, The Three Daughters of Madame Liang, which appeared just as Greg Walter
's investigative article about her and Ted Harris
threatened her reputation, reflected a remarkable continuity with her earlier work.
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.