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| Pearl S. Buck |
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Pearl S. Buck |
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| June 26, Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States |
| Died |
| March 6, Danby, Vermont, United States |
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) (June 26, – March 6, ), was a prolific American writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature. She is considered to be one of the most prominent writers of American naturalism, carrying on in the tradition of objective, journalistic prose pioneered by writers such as Frank Norris and Stephen Crane. Although she lived during the period dominated by literary Modernism, her prose stood out for its clear accessibility, as well as for its overarching concern with the moral pratfalls of samhälle. In addition to her elegant style and her acute sense of morality, Buck is also in important figure in the history of American literature due to her connections with the cultures of Asia, and China in particular. Buck, born to missionar
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Pearl S. Buck
American writer (–)
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, – March 6, ) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in and and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in In , Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.[1]
Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October , her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. She and her parents spent their summers in a villa in Kuling, Mount Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer.[2] She graduated from Randolph-Macon Wom
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