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Pearl S. Buck
Writing The Good Earth and portraying rural Chinese life for international readers.
The Good Earth · All Men Are Brothers
- Born
- 26 June 1892
- Birthplace
- Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States
- Died
- 6 March 1973
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Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck was an American novelist who spent much of her early life in China. Her fiction and public work addressed cross-cultural understanding, family life and children excluded by racial prejudice.
Early life
Childhood in China
Her missionary parents took her to China while she was an infant.
American college
Studied at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College before returning to China.
Career
- 1920s
Teaching and writing
Taught in China and began publishing essays and fiction.
- 1930s
International novelist
Gained a wide readership and moved to the United States.
- Later decades
Literary and social work
Continued publishing while building organisations supporting children.
Selected work
The Good Earth
Follows a Chinese farmer’s changing relationship with land and wealth.
All Men Are Brothers
Translated the Chinese classic Water Margin.
The Exile
A biography of her mother.
Beyond work
Adoption work
Co-founded Welcome House to help place children facing racial barriers to adoption.
Literary recognition
Received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sources & photo credit
Biography ↗Life and work ↗Photo: AP. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
