Buck’s “Good Earth” Manuscript Prompts Legal Claim

“A literary mystery appeared to be solved this year when a long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck’s novel ‘The Good Earth’ surfaced in a sale tied to a former secretary’s family. … But at least two foundations with links to the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner, who died in 1973, now hope to share in the discovery. And a legal brawl could be on tap….”