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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... summary from source:
Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
3,553 words, approx. 12 pages
 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... summary from source:
 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...
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 Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker ; Chinese: 赛珍珠; Pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū, primarily known as Pearl S. Buck ) ( 26 June 1892 – 6 March 1973 ) was a prolific American writer. In 1938, she became the first American woman...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Buck, Pearl
441 words, approx. 2 pages(born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, W.Va., U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vt.) American author noted for her novels of life in China. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Pearl Sydenstricker was raised in Chenchiang in eastern China... summary from source:
Buck, Pearl
101 words, approx. 1 pages(born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, W.Va., U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vt.) U.S. author. Buck was reared in China by her missionary parents and later taught in a Chinese university. Her first book to reach a wide audience was The Good Earth... summary from source:
 Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973) Summary
2,088 words, approx. 7 pagesAuthor 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... summary from source:
 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...
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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Leaving Rhoda for Pearl S. Buck
11/07/2003: 787 words, approx. 3 pages JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 11-07-2003 Leaving Rhoda for Pearl S. Buck -- Valerie Harper becomes the author By JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER Date: 11-07-2003, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions.=.Two Star B. Two Star P. One Star... summary from source:
Monarch Notes Works of Pearl Buck: Pearl Buck
01/01/1963: 1,260 words, approx. 4 pages Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Pearl Buck Birth: On June 26, 1892, a daughter was born to Absalom and Caroline Syndenstricker. The child was named Pearl. The couple had been missionaries to China; but when Caroline became sick, they returned home to Hillsboro, West Virginia, where... summary from source:
 AP News Pearl S. Buck group claims manuscript
8/6/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pagesA 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... summary from source:
AP News Buck birthplace fights for manuscript
8/7/2007: 617 words, approx. 2 pagesBook 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....
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. ... summary from source:
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... summary from source:
Critical Review by Josh Greenfield
1,150 words, approx. 4 pages
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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