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Pearl S. Buck


Born
in Hillsboro, West Virginia, The United States
June 26, 1892

Died
March 06, 1973

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Genre
Fiction, Biography, Children's

Influences
Asian folklore, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott ...more


Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck Walsh (Pearl S. Buck) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women’s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck was awarded the Nobel Pr ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 333,819 ratings · 19,214 reviews · 579 distinct works • Similar authors
The Good Earth (House of Ea...
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Pavilion of Women
4.14 avg rating — 14,166 ratings — published 1946 — 134 editions
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Imperial Woman
4.08 avg rating — 8,139 ratings — published 1956 — 119 editions
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East Wind: West Wind
4.04 avg rating — 7,766 ratings — published 1930 — 140 editions
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Peony
4.02 avg rating — 7,201 ratings — published 1948 — 107 editions
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Sons (House of Earth, #2)
3.85 avg rating — 6,308 ratings — published 1932 — 5 editions
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A House Divided (House of E...
3.93 avg rating — 4,536 ratings — published 1935 — 133 editions
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The Mother
4.07 avg rating — 4,332 ratings — published 1933 — 149 editions
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The Big Wave
3.86 avg rating — 3,912 ratings — published 1947 — 59 editions
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“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck
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“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
― Pearl S. Buck
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“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
― Pearl S. Buck, To My Daughters, With Love
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