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    Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling...
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    The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic home in Hillsboro, West Virginia where American writer Pearl S. Buck was born. The home now serves as a museum...
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  • Pearl S. Buck House may refer to either of two locations: Green Hills Farm, the Bucks County, Pennsylvania location where Pearl S. Buck lived for 40 years...
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  • Pearl of China: A Novel is a 2010 novel by Anchee Min, published by Bloomsbury. The fictional narrative involves Pearl Buck becoming friends with a Chinese...
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  • The Good Earth (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in an early 20th-century Chinese village in...
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    The Pearl S. Buck House, formerly known as Green Hills Farm, is the 67-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Nobel-prize-winning American...
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    writers within everybody's reach, with authors like Sinclair Lewis and Pearl Buck receiving recognition. From 1946, a renewed Academy changed focus and...
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  • a PhD in 1933. In 1917, Buck married Pearl Sydenstricker, who subsequently became famous under her married name Pearl S. Buck. In 1920 they had a child...
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  • A House Divided (novel) (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    A House Divided is a historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck first published by John Day Company in 1935. The story centers on the third...
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  • is a memoir/biography, or work of creative non-fiction, written by Pearl S. Buck about her mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing...
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  • of her biography of Henri Matisse in January 2006.Burying The Bones: Pearl Buck in China was published in March 2010. In 1961, she married playwright...
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Philip Wylie, Pearl Buck and Walter D. Edmonds and J. D. Salinger. Although abandoning his contract...
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  • East Wind: West Wind (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    East Wind: West Wind is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1930, her first. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her...
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    being particularly generous. In the United States, the celebrated author Pearl Buck wrote short stories to encourage charitable donations. The relief effort...
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  • Sons (novel) (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    Sons is a historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck first published by John Day Company in 1932. It is the second book in The House of...
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    April 2024. in 1938 ... The first Pocket Book title was The Good Earth by Pearl Buck, and it was sold in Macy's. Ennis, Thomas W. (3 November 1981). "Robert...
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  • The Mother is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in New York by the John Day Company in 1934. It follows the life of peasant woman in rural China...
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    The Big Wave (film) (category Films based on works by Pearl S. Buck)
    Tsuburaya. Produced by Stratton Productions and Toho, it is based on Pearl S. Buck's 1948 novel of the same name. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Mickey...
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    1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Pearl S. Buck)
    author Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." Buck was the...
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    American strikebreaker Pearl Buck (1892–1973), American author and novelist Pearl Chanda (born 1994), English actress Pearl Charles (born 1991), American...
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    and features in Western discussions in the field of Women's studies. Pearl Buck uses the term to describe Madame Liang in her novel, Three Daughters of...
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  • Soli, The Lotus Eaters Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China (Pearl Buck) — 2011 Padgett Powell, You and I Fiona MacCarthy, The Last...
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    with Nanjing, and the masterpiece "The Earth" by the American writer Pearl Buck who won the Nobel Prize for Literature was created in Nanjing. Famous...
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  • Christine is a musical by Pearl S. Buck and Charles K. Peck Jr. (book), Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) and Sammy Fain (music). Loosely based on the 1945...
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    Fair Pearl S. Buck Overlook at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park Beartown State Park Old Town of Hillsboro Route 219 in Hillsboro Pearl S. Buck, author...
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    Tranströmer Alexievich Tokarczuk Handke Ernaux Fosse Lewis O'Neill Glück Buck Eliot Faulkner Hemingway Perse Steinbeck Asturias Bellow Paz Walcott Morrison...
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    Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jean Stafford, Helen Hayes, Pearl Buck, Marian Anderson, Margaret Mead, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. In 1909...
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  • Clavell (Hong Kong, 1841) Peony by Pearl Buck (19th century, Jewish family in China) Imperial Woman by Pearl Buck (about Empress Dowager Cixi) Empress...
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    actively inspired other prominent citizens including Owen J. Roberts, Pearl Buck and Harry Emerson Fosdick to join her in advancing the organization's...
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  • Dragon Seed (novel) (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside...
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