Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973)
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 it...
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Biography EssayPearl 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...
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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 Syden...
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"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 sel...
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, while her parents were on furlough from their missionary work in China. Taken to the Orient during infancy, Buck grew up among Chinese f...
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Pearl 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 understan...
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In the following review, the critic praises the message and impact of the personal narrative in Buck's My Several Worlds.
Not only Pearl Buck's most important book, but—on many co...
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In the following review, Butcher calls Buck's Command the Morning "one of the most memorable and rewarding reading experiences of our day."
The title of this commanding novel [Com...
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In the following review, Sullivan complains that the prose is limp and the characterization is weak in Buck's Command the Morning.
No question about it, since the writhing, mushroom-shaped clou...
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In the following review, Lipsky asserts that the scientific story dwarfs the human story of Buck's Command the Morning.
In Laura Fermi's account of her life with Enrico Fermi, Atoms in t...
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In the following review, Vining discusses the different strands that weave together to create Buck's A Bridge for Passing.
This lovely book[, A Bridge for Passing,] is woven of three distinct s...
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In the following review, Weeks states that A Bridge for Passing "will be a touchstone for those made desolate by sorrow, and in writing it Mrs. Buck lifts our spirits as she revives her own.&#x...
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In the following review, Long traces the three interwoven elements of Buck's A Bridge for Passing.
Pearl Buck's beautifully written book [, A Bridge for Passing,] contains in its short c...
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In the following review, Clifford discusses Buck's The Living Reed and "regrets that this greatly respected author's use of the arts of fiction can hit so much farther from the ma...
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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."
Not the least of the effe...
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In the following review, Bristol asserts that Buck's The People of Japan is more of a sentimental look at the country than an in-depth study.
Pearl Buck unreservedly adopted China for her spiri...
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In the following review, Weeks praises Buck's The Three Daughters of Madame Liang as "compassionate, elucidating, and wise."
Pearl Buck is an old China hand who cannot accept with...
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In the following review, Parton praises the delicacy and restraint of Buck's writing in My Several Worlds.
"Two worlds, two worlds, and one cannot be the other, and each has its ways and...
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In the following review, Pippett discusses the China portrayed in Buck's The Three Daughters of Madame Liang.
Pearl Buck's great novel, The Good Earth, described the life of Chinese peas...
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In the following review, Bullock discusses the juxtaposition of Buck's life in China and her life in America.
In My Several Worlds Pearl Buck, with attractive humility and grace of spirit, give...
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In the following review, Butcher asserts that "Pearl Buck has a genius for making readers see pictures and know human beings, often with humor. Nowhere has she used that genius more tellingly t...
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In the following review, Peterson asserts that "The people in Buck's Letter From Peking are informed with magnanimity; and it is this magnanimity, inherent in Miss Buck herself as well a...
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In the following review, Boatwright argues that, "This essentially romantic portrayal of life weakens and diffuses the force of the author's moral argument [in Command the Morning, which...
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Critical Essay by Phyllis Bentley
[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 nov...
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Critical Essay by Henry Seidel Canby
[The standards of the Swedish Academy] are high, but evidently they are also flexible; otherwise it would be difficult to account for the recent award [of the Nobe...
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Critical Essay by G. A. Cevasco
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 ...
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
Like many another woman writer excessively drawn to the kind (and unkind) hearts and coronets scene—or to its American counterpart—Pearl Sydenstric...
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Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck
