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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 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    published that year by an American author" removed any impediment to Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth in 1932, also with a foreign setting in its study of...
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    the protagonist of The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Pearl S. Buck and the first volume of her House of Earth trilogy. Lung begins life...
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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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    edited by Richard J. Walsh, with extensive contributions from his wife, Pearl S. Buck. Under their influence, the journal published many prominent Asian literary...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Fischer, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Pearl S. Buck, Deng Xiaoping, Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah...
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  • The Big Wave (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    The Big Wave is a children's novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published as a short story in the October 1947 issue of the magazine Jack and Jill with illustrations...
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  • Peony (novel) (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    Peony, published in the UK as The Bondmaid, is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews. Peony is set in...
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  • The Story Bible is a book by Pearl S. Buck summarizing the whole Bible in two separate volumes: Vol. 1, The Old Testament, and Vol. 2, The New Testament...
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    the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home. He was of German descent. His daughter, Pearl S. Buck, became...
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  • Katharine Brush Twenty-Four Hours by Louis Bromfield The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter...
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    Ceres Medal by the Food and Agriculture Organization for 1999. The Pearl S. Buck Award by the Randolph College on 9 April 2000. Named Paul Harris Fellow...
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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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    flight schools of the time admitted neither women nor black people, so Robert S. Abbott, founder and publisher of the Chicago Defender newspaper, encouraged...
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    Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. London: Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–154. ISBN 978-0-521-63989-7. Smylie, James H (January 2004). "Pearl Buck's...
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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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    FBI". The Disability Rag. No. 5. Retrieved December 24, 2024. Pernick, M S (November 1997). "Eugenics and public health in American history". American...
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    leading role of the Chinese character O-Lan in the film version of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. MGM instead cast Luise Rainer to play the leading role...
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  • Imperial Woman (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu Hsi in Wade–Giles)...
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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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    included U.S. President and Senator John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, and U.S. Ambassador...
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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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    O-Lan is a fictional character in Pearl S. Buck's 1931 novel The Good Earth. For her portrayal of the character in the 1937 film adaptation, Luise Rainer...
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