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	Pearl S. Buck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearl S. Buck died on March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
		In her lifetime, Pearl S. Buck would write over 100 works of literature, her most known being The Good Earth.
		Pearl was forced to flee China in 1934 due to political tensions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pearl_Buck (522 words)

	PEARL S. BUCK
		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.
		Pearl Bucks boeken spelen zich vooral in China af.
		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.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/P/Pearl_S._Buck (256 words)

	Literature:The Good Earth
		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.
		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.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/eacp/japanworks/china/lit/good.htm (1919 words)

	MSN Encarta - Pearl S. Buck
		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.
		Buck was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		In 1921 Buck gave birth to a daughter who was mentally retarded.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761566814 (774 words)

	Pearl Buck – Biography
		Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		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).
		Pearl Buck began to write in the twenties; her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, appeared in 1930.
	liter.szm.sk /1938 (353 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl was born in America in 1892 during her parents' home leave, but moved back to China at the age of three months.
		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.
		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.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_pearl_buck.html (972 words)

	Author Profile: Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl Buck divorced her husband in 1935 after falling in love with Walsh.
		Pearl S. Buck created a colossal body of work --- over seventy books --- with unforgettable characters and vivid imagery.
		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.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-buck-pearl.asp (1241 words)

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

	Old Pocahontas County house a special place for Pearl Buck
		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.
		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.
		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)

	Fiction: Pearl S. Buck
		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.
		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.
		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)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Pearl S. Buck
		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.
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200150 (848 words)

	R-MWC - Pearl S. Buck
		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)

	Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library -- WV Authors -- Pearl S. Buck
		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.
		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.
	www.wvwc.edu /lib/wv_authors/authors/a_buck.htm (1159 words)

	Pearl Buck
		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 worked as a teacher and interpreter for her husband and travelled through the countryside.
		At her death Buck was working on 'The Red Earth', a further sequel to The Good Earth, presenting the modern-day descendants of that novel's characters.
	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)

	Additional Reading (from Pearl Buck) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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.
		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.
		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)

	David Lloyd Agency Files of Pearl S. Buck
		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.
		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 continued her education at Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1914.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/davidlloyd-buck (1565 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.
		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.
		Buck and her first husband adopted a baby in 1926.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~adoption/people/buck.html (470 words)

	Pearl Buck biography
		Pearl Buck, recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		Pearl Buck died in Danby, Vermont in 1973.
		Buck published her first novel, EAST WIND, WEST WIND, when she was 38.
	momo.essortment.com /pearlbuckbiogr_rwbq.htm (593 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Buck, Pearl S.
		Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
		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.
		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.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=629 (1725 words)

	Pearl Buck
		Pearl Buck was all of these things and more.
		By the time of Pearl Buck's death in 1973, she had published over seventy novels.
		They married in 1917, and it was then that Pearl began to gather background for the stories that she would write.
	www.absolutewrite.com /novels/pearl_buck.htm (450 words)

	About Pearl S. Buck
		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.
		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.
	www.pearl-s-buck.org /psbi/PearlSBuck/about.asp (1005 words)

	Pearl Buck Center -Creating opportunities and provide support to individuals with developmental disabilities and others at risk, their children and families, to promote their independence and active participation in the community.
		Pearl Buck Center -Creating opportunities and provide support to individuals with developmental disabilities and others at risk, their children and families, to promote their independence and active participation in the community.
		The mission of Pearl Buck Center Incorporated is to create opportunities and provide support to individuals with developmental disabilities and others at risk, their children and families, to promote their independence and active participation in the community.
	www.pearlbuckcenter.com (94 words)

	Livrenpoche.com : Achat des livres de Pearl Buck
		Pearl Buck nous livre une fois encore, au fil de ces récits émouvants et pathétiques, une parcelle de l'âme chinoise, fascinante et déchirée.
		Pearl Buck savait-elle, lorsqu'elle décrivit l'existence de cette famille de paysans chinois, humbles et travailleurs, qu'elle annonçait prophétiquement l'immense évolution de la Chine au cours de ces dernières années ?
		Dans FILS DE DRAGON, Pearl Buck décrivait l'existence d'une famille de paysans.
	www.livrenpoche.com /auteur/Pearl_Buck/3152.html (974 words)

	Resources: Pearl S. Buck
		Originally built in 1835, this farmhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania was home to Pearl and her international family for 38 years.
		In this richly illustrated and critically acclaimed biography, our literary guide brings Pearl Buck's passions to life, tracing her considerable and often forgotten influence in 20th-century Chinese and American literature, culture and politics.
		From Pearl's first adoption of a bi-racial child in 1949 to the present day, Pearl S. Buck International and Welcome House has helped nearly 7,000 children find loving adoptive families in the United States.
	www.oprah.com /obc_classic/featbook/good/resources/good_resources_main.jhtml (253 words)

	Pearl Buck
		Pearl Buck was born in West Virginia in 1892.
		She returned to America at age 17 to attend Randolph-Macon College but went back to China, where she and her husband, John L. Buck, were Presbyterian missionaries and university teachers.
		She spent her childhood in China with her missionary parents.
	www.horatioalger.com /members/member_info.cfm?memberid=buc64 (161 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl Buck wrote a first-person novel from the point of view of a Chinese man, which was controversial because she was of a different culture.
		Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition.
		This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/good_earth1.asp (687 words)

	Biography van Pearl S. Buck
		Pearl works as a teacher and interpreter for her husband and travels through the country.
		Pearl finishes her studies cum laude and in 1914 she graduates.
		In 1915 she meets Dr. John Lossing Buck, who works as an agricultural consultant for the presbyterian missionaries in China, and who is a younger colleague of Absalom Sydenstricker.
	jfbrouwer.kabel.utwente.nl /psbeng/bodybio.html (1723 words)

	Pearl Buck at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
		Pearl Buck was born in Viginia in the United States but became both a missionary and teacher in China and strove to improve Chinese-American relations.
		Her works include reflections on both American and Chinese thinking and she established the Pearl S Buck Foundation to assist illegitimate children born of U.S. servicemen and this foundation became the benefactor of most of her income.
		Imperial Woman Imperial Power -- Analysis of Imperial Woman (Pearl Buck) and the manner in which Buck exposes the palace intrigues of the Forbidden City.
	www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Buck (398 words)

	Dragon and the Pearl - On-line Edition of Cyberbil! Pearl Buck Biography
		Pearl lived half her lifetime in the East, half in the West.
		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.
		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.
	www.orlok.com /cyberbil/pearl2/pbbio.html (576 words)

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