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	Pearl S. Buck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Carie (Stulting) and Absalom Sydenstricker, Buck went with her parents, southern Presbyterian missionaries, to Zhenjiang, China in 1892 when Buck was 3 months old.
		Pearl was forced to flee China in 1934 due to political tensions.
		Pearl S. Buck died on March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearl_Buck (522 words)

	PEARL S. BUCK
		Pearl bracht de eerste jaren van haar jeugd in China door, maar in 1900 verliet de familie het land, omdat het daar door de Boxeropstand te gevaarlijk werd voor buitenlanders.
		Pearl Bucks boeken spelen zich vooral in China af.
		Om dichter bij haar uitgever Richard Walsh en haar geestelijk gehandicapte dochter te zijn, en omdat de situatie in China niet zo veilig was, verhuisde Pearl Buck in 1934 weer naar de VS.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/P/Pearl_S._Buck (256 words)

	Who is Pearl S. Buck?
		Pearl’s parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Presbyterian missionaries on leave from China living in Hillsboro, West Virginia when Pearl was born.
		Pearl studied in the mornings with her mother and worked with a Chinese tutor during the afternoons.
		Pearl is buried at the Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
	mimi.essortment.com /pearlsbuck_rlue.htm (576 words)

	Old Pocahontas County house a special place for Pearl Buck
		When famed author Pearl S. Buck died in 1973, her obituary, as reported by The Associated Press, gave a brief account of her death, then launched into a capsule biography: "She was born in China June 26, 1892.
		Pearl Buck spent much of her life in China, a land she came to know so well and write about with such skill in "The Good Earth" (1931) and other books that her writing earned her both the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, the only woman ever to capture both honors.
		Today, the handsome farmhouse where she was born is the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum, acquired and restored in a drive spearheaded by the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs and Jim Comstock, editor of The West Virginia Hillbilly.
	www.wvculture.org /history/notewv/buck1.html (996 words)

	Literature:The Good Earth
		When her second novel, The Good Earth, was published in 1931, Pearl Buck became famous throughout the world for her moving story of the joys and tragedies of the Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung and his family.
		Pearl Buck, on the other hand, was mainly committed to describing the Chinese people she knew and to presenting her American audience with the details of Chinese life, customs and attitudes.
		Pearl Buck's standpoint is finally that of an outsider who is particularly sensitive to aspects of Chinese life which are different from what Westerners are accustomed to.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/eacp/japanworks/china/lit/good.htm (1919 words)

	Author Profile: Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892 in the West Virginia home of her grandmother.
		Pearl published her first work in 1923, a nonfiction article for Atlantic magazine titled "In China too." In 1925, while studying at Cornell University, she wrote an article titled "A Chinese Woman Speaks" which would later be the impetus for her first novel EAST WIND, WEST WIND, published by the John Day Company in 1930.
		Pearl Buck divorced her husband in 1935 after falling in love with Walsh.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-buck-pearl.asp (1241 words)

	Pearl Buck – Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		Pearl Buck began to write in the twenties; her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, appeared in 1930.
		Pearl Buck has been active in many welfare organizations; in particular she set up an agency for the adoption of Asian-American children (Welcome House, Inc.) and has taken an active interest in retarded children (The Child Who Never Grew, 1950).
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Pearl S. Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pearl was born in America in 1892 during her parents' home leave, but moved back to China at the age of three months.
		In 1909, Pearl enrolled in Miss Jewell's School in Shanghai, a school that had formerly been a place for privileged Western girls to be educated but had lost much of its prestige in the previous years.
		By this point, Pearl's marriage to her husband was failing, and although the couple was not divorced until years later, she informed him that she wanted to leave him.
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	MSN Encarta - Pearl S. Buck
		Buck was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		In 1921 Buck gave birth to a daughter who was mentally retarded.
		Buck’s love for children resulted in her adoption of seven children of different nationalities and in the establishment of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation for the aid and adoption of Asian and Asian American children.
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	Fiction: Pearl S. Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It includes a photographic tour through Buck's life, a list of related humanitarianism resources, news, and is the home to Pearl S. Buck International, an organization founded in the author's name to improve the quality of life and expand opportunities for children and families, principally in Asia.
		Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, was born Pearl Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		Meanwhile Buck continued her career as an author, winning recognition for her work with the William Dean Howells Medal for distinguished fiction in 1935, membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1936, and the Nobel Prize in 1938 "for rich and generic epic descriptions of Chinese peasant life and masterpieces of biography."
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/buck.htm (412 words)

	Brief Biography of Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl's father spent months away from home, itinerating in the Chinese countryside in search of Christian converts; Pearl's mother ministered to Chinese women in a small dispensary she established.
		The Bucks' first child, Carol, was born in 1921; a victim of PKU, she proved to be profoundly retarded.
		The tragedies and dislocations which Pearl suffered in the 1920s reached a climax in March, 1927, in the violence known as the "Nanking Incident." In a confused battle involving elements of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, Communist forces, and assorted warlords, several Westerners were murdered.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/Buck/biography.html (833 words)

	Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library -- WV Authors -- Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl gave birth to her only natural child in 1921, a baby girl who was found to be profoundly retarded because of a disease called PKU.
		One goal Pearl Buck had as a writer was to teach the Western world about Chinese culture, to help Western readers to understand and appreciate the Chinese culture she so loved.
		Buck does not understand the meaning of the Confucian separation of man's kingdom from that of woman, she is like someone trying to write a story of the European Middle Ages without understanding the rudiments of chivalric standards and the institution of Christianity.
	www.wvwc.edu /lib/wv_authors/authors/a_buck.htm (1159 words)

	Pearl S. Buck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1921, she and John had a daughter with (A genetic disorder of metabolism; lack of the enzyme needed to turn phenylalanine into tyrosine results in an accumulation of phenylalanine in the body fluids which causes various degrees of mental deficiency) phenylketonuria, Carol.
		Buck began her writing career in 1930 with her first publication of.
		Pearl S. Buck died on March 6, 1973 in (Click link for more info and facts about Danby, Vermont) Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm, (Click link for more info and facts about Perkasie, Pennsylvania) Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/pearl_s._buck.htm (618 words)

	R-MWC - Pearl S. Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), a 1914 graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, was a woman far ahead of her time.
		Buck was also an outspoken activist who used her position and considerable influence to advance the causes to which she was so passionately dedicated.
		Buck was also a founder of the East and West Association, which was dedicated to improving understanding between Asia and America.
	www.rmwc.edu /buck/pearl.asp (424 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Pearl S. Buck
		In 1938,; Buck became the first of only two American women to win the Nobel Prize for literature, though her books have fallen out of favor with critics and academicians and she is rarely anthologized today or studied in college literature courses.
		Pearl Buck was born Pearl Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on June 26, 1892,; the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries Absalom and Carie (Stulting) Sydenstricker, who were then on leave from their post in China, to which they returned when Pearl was three months old.
		Since she was fluent in Chinese language and culture, Buck came to support the new wave in Chinese literature, a dissident movement that called for a complete reconstruction of literature as a way of promoting political and social change.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200150 (848 words)

	Pearl Buck
		Buck worked as a teacher and interpreter for her husband and travelled through the countryside.
		Buck and Walsh were active in humanitarian causes through the East and West Association, which was devoted to mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia and the United States, Welcome House, and The Pearl Buck Foundation.
		Buck died at the age of eighty in Danby, Vermont, on March 6, 1973.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /pearlbuc.htm (1893 words)

	Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl Sydenstricker was born in 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		In 1926, Pearl received her Master of Arts in Literature at Cornell University and a year later she moved back to China.
		In 1952, Pearl wrote The Hidden Flower and she and her husband became part of the East and West Association, created to promote mutual understanding between the United States and Asia.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/buck.html (482 words)

	Adoption History: Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
		Pearl Buck, who won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, was one of the best known and most widely read American novelists of the twentieth century.
		She was also an adoptive parent, a prominent early critic of racial and religious matching, a thorn in the side of the child welfare establishment, and an advocate of special needs, transracial, and international adoptions.
		With her second husband, Richard Walsh, Buck adopted two infant boys from the Cradle (one of the country's first specialized adoption agencies) in 1936, followed by four mixed-race children from Europe, Asia, and the United States.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~adoption/people/buck.html (470 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Buck, Pearl S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		In 1938, Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, an honor that was welcomed by her millions of readers, but was greeted with derision by a good many critics.
		In the postwar years, Buck was increasingly troubled by the plight of mixed-race children, born to Asian women as the result of sexual relationships with American servicemen stationed across the Pacific.
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	AllRefer.com - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Pearl Sydenstricker Buck[sI´dunstrik´´ur] Pronunciation Key, 1892–1973, American author, b.
		Pearl Buck was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
		In 1949 she founded Welcome House, which provided care for the children of Asian women and American soldiers; the Pearl Buck Foundation of Philadelphia, to which she consigned most of her royalties, aids in the adoption of Amerasian children.
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	Pearl Buck
		Pearl Buck was all of these things and more.
		They married in 1917, and it was then that Pearl began to gather background for the stories that she would write.
		By the time of Pearl Buck's death in 1973, she had published over seventy novels.
	www.absolutewrite.com /novels/pearl_buck.htm (450 words)

	David Lloyd Agency Files of Pearl S. Buck
		Buck continued her education at Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914.
		In 1925 Buck returned to America to seek care for her daughter, Carol, who was severely retarded, and in 1926 she received an MA from Cornell.
		Buck left the political unrest in China and returned to America in 1934 to be closer to both her daughter, who was hospitalized in New Jersey, and Richard Walsh, her editor, whom she would marry in 1935 after receiving a divorce.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/davidlloyd-buck (1565 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Wave: Books: Pearl S. Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Buck's themes include courage in the face of danger, the impact of geography upon the lives of the Japanese people, and the cycles of death and life.
		Pearl Buck selected each individual print to allow her readers to see the beauty of Japan, and they form an integral part of the story.
		Pearl Buck presents a deep reverence for life, death, and living with danger and uncertainty that permeate the story in an accessible and real way.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0064401715?v=glance (1499 words)

	Additional Reading (from Pearl Buck) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Buck's life and writings are examined in Cornelia Spencer, The Exile's Daughter (1944), written by her sister; Theodore F. Harris, Pearl S. Buck, 2 vol.
		Buck, Pearl S. The daughter of American missionaries who served in China, Pearl S. Buck was one of the first writers to try to explain the mystery of the Far East to Western readers.
		Although pearls can be quite valuable, they are not considered to be true gems because they are very soft, about one-third the hardness of diamonds.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-92896?tocId=92896 (769 words)

	Dragon and the Pearl - On-line Edition of Cyberbil! Pearl Buck Biography
		In 1917 she married Lossing Buck, a Cornell Graduate working in China, and spent the next several years in Nanhsuchou, a barren rural village, home to several thousand impoverished farmers.
		Along with her tireless efforts on behalf of the Chinese, Pearl was also active in the campaigns for African-American civil rights, the equal rights ammendment, and a nuclear test ban.
		Pearl lived half her lifetime in the East, half in the West.
	www.orlok.com /cyberbil/pearl2/pbbio.html (576 words)

	Pearl Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1934 she was divorced from John L. Buck, a missionary; they had been married in 1917.
		Continuing to write under the name Pearl Buck, she turned to biography with lives of her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, Fighting Angel (1936), and her mother, Caroline, The Exile (1936).
		Buck's life and writings are examined in Theodore F. Harris, Pearl S. Buck, 2 vol.
	www.nobel-winners.com /Literature/pearl_buck.html (385 words)

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