Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians. Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on Jun...

Pearl S. Buck's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to become understandable to all readers. Buck's earlier works, most of...

"One pays the price for being prolific," bestselling author Pearl S. Buck once told an interviewer. "Heaven knows the literary Establishment can't forgive me for it, nor for the fact that my books sell." In retrospect, Buck's assessment of her own career...

Circus titan John Ringling's Ca d'Zan mansion once again dazzles visitors to Sarasota after a six-year restoration. He was the king of the circus-- The Greatest Show on Earth. She was his queen. Together John and Mable Ringling traveled the world and built...

Byline: Phil Elderkin Special to The Christian Science Monitor HESPERIA, CALIF. -- The idea of building a beehivelike house out of moist dirt mixed with some loose cement, scooped into standard-size sandbags, and held together by strands of barbed wire sounds like...