John Day

When she first met him, Buck thought Walsh a hard, dry, conservative sort of middle-aged person. She soon revised this first impression to recognize his warmth and humour, and the way he guided and...

His work at John Day was taken over by his son, also called Richard.

The germ of this novel was PSB 's long story A Chinese Woman Speaks, to which she then added a sequel before revising the whole. The book was accepted by Richard Walsh of the...

No copy of the first edition of either collection is known to survive; each had a second edition in 1551. The second...

Bearing in mind that her publishers, John Day , badly needed something money-making, PSB collected much of her early magazine fiction in a volume titled The First Wife and Other Stories.

At one stage she judged it unpublishable and threw the manuscript out, but on second thoughts she recovered it. She brought it out for publication to help the firm of John Day through its...

Out of many competing versions of the original, going back to the seventh century, she chose a comparatively short one in seventy chapters. She spent four years on her translation (the earliest complete one into...

She spoke during these months in the USA on other hot political topics such as birth control and white inhumanity towards blacks. In February 1933 she shared a platform with Eleanor Roosevelt . Back in...

Written at white-hot speed during the months immediately following on her mother's death in October 1921, The Exile lay hidden in a closet, unread by even a single friend of the author, for nearly fifteen...