I’ve never watched Storage Wars, but this story in the Star-T has me wondering whether I’ve been missing out. The idea that a woman could buy a storage locker in an auction at a Fort Worth storage unit and inside it discover an unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck, a Nobel and Pultizer Prize winner, that’s pretty incredible.
As in, I kind of don’t believe it, even though “Buck experts” have apparently verified that the book is indeed the work of the author. But I’m probably just being overly skeptical, just because the story doesn’t provide an explanation for how the novel ended up there. Anyway, that’s not the part of the article that made me think about watching Storage Wars sometime. It’s another item a Fort Worth storage unit manager found once:
Jacob Crozier, manager of Mike’s Auction House in Fort Worth, said of the literary find: “That’s cool.”
He said his business had a hidden treasure two years ago — a 6-foot, 800-pound Russian bronze statue of three men on horses. It sold for $4,000 but could be worth up to $80,000.
