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Name: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Birth Date: June 26, 1892
Death Date: 1973
Place of Birth: Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist, writer

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Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
678 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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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...
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Biography of Pearl S. Buck
3,132 words, approx. 10 pages
"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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973) Summary
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Author and humanitarian activist Pearl S. Buck almost single-handedly created the prism through which an entire generation of Americans formed its opinion about China and its people. Her work and personality first came to the attention of a wide...
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Pearl S. Buck Information
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), was a prolific American writer who won a Nobel Prize in...


News and Journals
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Pearl S. Buck group claims manuscript
8/6/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
A literary mystery appeared to be solved this year when a long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's novel "The Good Earth" surfaced in a sale tied to a former secretary's family.The auction house involved called the FBI, and U.S. officials proudly gave the typed manuscript...
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Buck birthplace fights for manuscript
8/7/2007: 617 words, approx. 2 pages
Book lovers marveled in June when a Philadelphia auction house stumbled upon the long-lost manuscript of the 1931 Pearl S. Buck classic "The Good Earth."The daughter of Buck's longtime secretary said she had found the 400 typed papers in a suitcase in her cluttered basement....


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Phyllis Bentley
1,871 words, approx. 6 pages
[It is] as novelist, as pure literary artist, that Mrs. Buck regards herself and prefers to be regarded. It seems worth while, therefore, to consider her books as novels, works of art, to analyze them as fiction, without prejudging them by applying any label. Let us, that is, for a moment forget that Mrs. Buck is famous as "the novelist of China," "the author of those Chinese books," and inquire simply, as with any unknown novelist, into her choice of material and her technique. ...
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Critical Essay by G. A. Cevasco
1,451 words, approx. 5 pages
To understand the wellsprings of her own art, her creativity, [Pearl Buck] had to examine in depth and to explain at length the scope and the limits of her work within the tradition of the Chinese novel. Now that more than twenty-five years have elapsed since her lecture on the Chinese novel before the Nobel Committee, her judgments can be dispassionately reconsidered, objectively commented upon, and critically evaluated. Her conception of the Chinese novel, moreover, can be utilized as a yardstick in an es...
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Critical Review by Josh Greenfield
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In the following review, Greenfield complains that in Buck's The People of Japan, she "mostly serves up the usual blend of picturesque pap and old saws."
 


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