>be Pearl S. Buck >be American >live in China for most

Do you think she sucked Chinese cock?

Kafka is often not included in Czech lit classes because he wrote in German. I don't know if he's ignored in German lit classes or not, perhaps someone knows.

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>>9410846
>>become immensely popular and win both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize

I'm interested in stuff like this, where a writer is immensely popular for a decade or two, and then a few decades later they're virtually forgotten.

Mickey Spillane had 7 out of the top-ten selling books ever at one point. Nowadays he's known only to crime genre enthusiasts, and most of them don't read him (he wasn't very good).

>>9410920
There are more cases of this than not. Most of the most popular artists from 100 years ago, nobody nowadays has even heard of.

Check out this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishers_Weekly_list_of_bestselling_novels_in_the_United_States_in_the_1920s

>>9410863
Kafka is high school reading in america