Unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck turns up in Fort Worth storage unit

In the unlikeliest of finds, a literary treasure by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck was discovered late last year in Fort Worth in — of all places — a storage locker up for auction.

After the shocking find by the buyer, a woman who asked the Buck estate to let her remain anonymous, the late author’s family took possession of the work for a small finder’s fee.

The completed novel, The Eternal Wonder, apparently finished just before Buck died of cancer in 1973, was unknown to her family and her publishers.

News that the discovery happened in Fort Worth, which was not revealed at the outset, floored Arlington librarian Laureen Jacobs.

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