Biography
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 novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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The Gift (1977)
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Guide (1965)
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The Big Wave (1961)
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China Sky (1945)
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Dragon Seed (1944)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1892-06-25
Deathday1973-03-06 (80 years old)
Birth NamePearl Comfort Sydenstricker
Birth PlaceHillsboro, West Virginia, USA
ReligionPresbyterianism
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RelationshipsRichard J. Walsh (1935-01-01 - 1960-01-01), John Lossing Buck (1917-05-13 - 1935-01-01)
ChildrenCaroline Grace Buck, Janice Comfort Walsh
FatherAbsalom Sydenstricker
MotherCaroline Maude Stulting Sydenstricker
SiblingsEdgar Sydenstricker
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsPearl Sydenstricker Buck
AwardsHoratio Alger Award, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Women's Hall of Fame, Nobel Prize in Literature
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