Theodore Harris

PSB 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.

PSB 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...

Theodore Harris was Buck's companion at the end of her life, and collaborated with her on her official biography.

PSB , 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...

PSB '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.

PSB 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...