Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize. She also received the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

赛珍珠获得了普利策奖。她还获得了美国艺术与文学学院颁发的威廉·迪安·豪厄尔斯奖章。

Zenith was still in the halcyon William Dean Howells days; not yet had it become the duty of young people to be hard and brisk, and knowing about radios, jazz, and gin.

Zenith 仍处于 William Dean Howells 的平静时期；还没有成为年轻人的责任，努力、活泼，了解收音机、爵士乐和杜松子酒。