Pearl S Buck
I chose this person because I thaught it would be intresting to learn about her and what she acheaved in her life. It was interesting to learn about her she wrote books that sounded verry good to read
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China. Pearl was the fourth of seven children, and one of only three who would survive to adulthood. She was born when her parents were near the end of a furlough in the United States; when she was three months old, she was taken back to China, where she spent most of the first forty years of her life.
The Sydenstrickers lived in Chinkiang Zhenjiang, in Kiangsu Jiangsu province, then a small city lying at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. Pearl's father spent months away from home, itinerating in the Chinese countryside in search of Christian converts; Pearl's mother ministered to Chinese women in a small dispensary she established.
Buck's first novel, East Wind: West Wind, a study of the conflict between the old China and the new, was followed by The Good Earth, a novel of Chinese peasant life, which won her a Pulitzer Prize. In 1933 Buck received a second masterŐs degree, this time from Yale University, and in 1934 she took up residence in the United States. In 1935 she divorced John Buck and married Richard J. Walsh, her publisher. Her extensive literary output; Sons, The First Wife, and Other Stories, The Mother, A House Divided, and biographies of her father and mother, The Exile and Fighting Angel culminated in a 1938 Nobel Prize for literature. This was the first ever awarded to a woman.
I learned from this person is a lot of things that are intersting to me .
Bibliography
1) Encypeada of world bibliography volume #3
2) North American bibliography volume #10
3) http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/biography.html
4) http://www.greatwomen.org/profs/buck_p.php
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