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  • Born: 26 June 1892
  • Birthplace: Hillsboro, West Virginia
  • Died: 6 March 1973 (cancer)
  • Best Known As: The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth

Name at birth: Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker

Pearl S. Buck became an international celebrity with her runaway bestseller The Good Earth, a tale of Chinese peasants that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She grew up in China, daughter to American Presbyterian missionaries who came back to the United States just long enough for Pearl to be born. She didn't return to the U.S. until 1910, when she entered Virginia's Randolph-Macon Woman's College. Pearl graduated in 1914 and went back to China, where she married missionary John Lossing Buck in 1917. They had a daughter with mental disabilities, and missionary work wasn't for Pearl; she began writing and in 1930 published her first novel, East Wind: West Wind. Throughout the 1930s her depiction of life in China guided the perceptions of Americans, and her novels were widely read, if not overpraised by critics. She returned to the U.S. in 1935, divorced Buck, married publisher Richard Walsh and settled in Pennsylvania. Pearl Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1938), and she hobnobbed with activist celebrities of the day like Margaret Sanger and W.E.B. Du Bois. Among the many things she advocated was the adoption of disadvantaged children, and to that end she opened the Welcome House Adoption Program in 1949. (She and Walsh adopted six children of their own.) During her long career she wrote dozens of novels, plays, essays, opinion pieces and translations. Pearl S. Buck's novels include Sons (1932), A House Divided (1935) and Dragon Seed (1942). Buck's translations include All Men Are Brothers (1933, the Chinese classic Shui Hu Zhuan), and her books about her parents are The Exile (1936, her mother's story) and Fighting Angel (1936, her father's story).

The Good Earth was made into a film in 1937, starring Paul Muni as Wang Lung and Luise Rainier as O-Lan... The Good Earth and Sons and A House Divided are sometimes referred to as the House of Earth trilogy... Pearl S. Buck's autobiography is Imperial Woman (1956).

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(born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, W.Va., U.S. — died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vt.) U.S. author. Buck was reared in China by her missionary parents and later taught in a Chinese university. Her first book to reach a wide audience was The Good Earth (1931, Pulitzer Prize), describing the struggles of a Chinese peasant and his slave wife. Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935) followed; the trilogy was published as The House of Earth (1935). Among her later works are short stories, novels (including five under the pseudonym John Sedges), and an autobiography. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her booksand her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians.

Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on June 26, 1892. Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, on furlough at the time of her birth from their activities in Chinkiang, China, although they soon returned there. During the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the family was forced to flee to Shanghai where, from 1907 to 1909, Buck attended boarding school. She moved to the United States the following year to enter Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia. After receiving a bachelor's degree in 1914, she took a teaching assistantship at the college but almost immediately returned to Chinkiang to care for her ailing mother.

In 1917 she married John Lossing Buck, an American agricultural specialist, with whom she settled in northern China. From 1921 until 1934 they lived chiefly in Nanking, where her husband taught agricultural theory. Buck occasionally taught English literature at several universities in the city, although most of her time was spent caring for her mentally disabled daughter and her infirm parents. In 1925 Buck returned to the United States to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University, where she received a master's degree in English in 1926. Back in Nanking the following year, she barely escaped a revolutionary army attack on the city. Meanwhile, because of her family's financial difficulties, she resolved to begin writing.

Novels Reflect Love of China

Buck's first novel, East Wind: West Wind (1930), a study of the conflict between the old China and the new, was followed by The Good Earth (1931), a profoundly affecting novel of Chinese peasant life, which won her a Pulitzer Prize. In 1933 Buck received a second master's degree, this time from Yale University, and in 1934 she took up permanent residence in the United States. In 1935 she divorced John Buck and married Richard J. Walsh, her publisher. Her extensive literary output - Sons (1932), The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), The Mother (1934), A House Divided (1935), and biographies of her father and mother, The Exile (1936) and Fighting Angel (1936) respectively - culminated in a 1938 Nobel Prize for literature, the first ever awarded to an American woman.

Humanitarian Efforts Occupy Later Life

In the next three decades, while continuing to write prolifically, Buck worked to promote racial tolerance and ease the plight of disadvantaged Asians, particularly children. In 1941 she founded the East and West Association to promote greater understanding among the world's peoples, and in 1949 she established Welcome House, an adoption agency for Asian-American children. She always had a special interest in children, and among her many books for them are The Water-Buffalo Children (1943), The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat Sen (1953), The Beech Tree (1955), Christmas Miniature (1957), and The Christmas Ghost (1960). A steadfast supporter of multiracial families, in 1964 she organized the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which supports Asian-American children and their mothers living abroad.

Although Buck's literary career embraced a variety of genres, almost all of her stories are set in China: the extremely popular novel Dragon Seed, its less popular sequel, The Promise (1943), and a raft of later novels, including Peony (1948), Letter from Peking (1957), and The New Year (1968). Among her other works, the highly acclaimed The Living Reed (1963) details the history of a Korean family during the late 19th and early 20th century. In the late 1940s Buck also authored a trilogy under the pseudonym John Sedges. The novels were later published as American Triptych (1958).

Lauded for Generous Spirit

Buck's play A Desert Incident was produced in New York City in 1959. Her ability as an essayist is exemplified by American Argument (with Eslanda Goode Robeson, 1949) and Friend to Friend (1958), "a candid exchange" with Philippine president Carlos P. Rómulo. Buck died of lung cancer in 1973, with more than one hundred written works to her credit. But even more significant, perhaps, were the over three hundred awards she received for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of improved race relations worldwide.

Further Reading

There has been very little critical attention given to Mrs. Buck's work. Her autobiography is My Several Worlds (1954). The best biographical sources are Cornelia Spencer, The Exile's Daughter: A Biography of Pearl S. Buck (1944), Paul A. Doyle, Pearl S. Buck (1965), and Nora Stirling, Pearl Buck: A Woman in Conflict (1983).

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Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker (sī'dənstrĭk'ər), 1892-1973, American author, b. Hillsboro, W.Va., grad. Randolph-Macon Women's College, 1914, the first American woman to receive (1938) the Nobel Prize in Literature. Until 1924 she lived principally in China, where she, her parents, and her first husband, John Lossing Buck, whom she married in 1917, were missionaries. She is famous for her vivid, compassionate novels about life in China. The Good Earth (1931; Pulitzer Prize), a bestseller that is considered her finest work, describes a Chinese peasant's rise to wealth and brilliantly conveys a sense of the daily life of ordinary rural fieldworkers in China. Among her other novels of China are East Wind: West Wind (1930), Dragon Seed (1942), Imperial Woman (1956), and Mandala (1971). Remarkably prolific, she wrote 39 novels; 25 nonfiction works, including Fighting Angel, a biography of her father (1936), and China As I See It (1970); and numerous short stories, children's books, plays, and magazine articles. In 1935, she married her publisher, Richard J. Walsh, president of the John Day Company. In 1949 she founded Welcome House, which provided care for the children of Asian women and American soldiers; the Pearl Buck Foundation of Philadelphia, to which she consigned most of her royalties, aids in the adoption of Amerasian children.

Bibliography

See her autobiography, My Several Worlds (1954); biographies by T. F. Harris (2 vol., 1969-71), P. Conn (1996), and H. Spurling (2010); study by K. Liao (1997).

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Works by Pearl S. Buck

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1931The Good Earth. This novel of Chinese peasant life, centered on the career of Wang Lung and his descendants, is the first volume of The House of Earth trilogy, which includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). It wins both the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Medal for the most distinguished work of American fiction published between 1930 and 1935. The child of missionaries in China, Buck used her firsthand experiences to bring an unprecedented authenticity to her depiction of Chinese life, infused by a mythic, universalized tonality that produces what critic Malcolm Cowley describes as "a parable of the life of man, in his relation to the soil that sustains him."
1932Sons. The sequel to The Good Earth (1931) and the second of The House of Earth trilogy follows the careers of Wang Lung's three sons and the further disruption of traditional Chinese society by modern forces.
1933First Wife and Other Stories. Buck's first and best story collection concerns China and features "Wang Lung," the story that introduces her protagonist and the central incident of The Good Earth. Other stories depict the Communist revolution, the contrast between traditional Chinese values and Western ideas, and incidents from the tragic Yangtze flood of 1931.
1935A House Divided. The concluding volume of the author's House of Earth trilogy, which had begun with The Good Earth (1931) and Sons (1932), chronicles the impact of modern Chinese history on the house of Wang. Neither sequel lives up to expectations generated by The Good Earth.
1942Dragon Seed. Buck's propaganda novel concerns a small group of Chinese farmers near Nanking who try to hold on to their land in the face of the advancing Japanese troops. Family solidarity and devotion are tested by the horrors of modern warfare.
1946Pavilion of Women. The novel concerns a Chinese lady who withdraws from married life and finds happiness in experiencing a spiritual love for an Italian priest. It is Buck's first attempt to document upper-class Chinese life.
1948Peony. Buck's novel deals with racial conflict experienced by a Jewish family living in China.
1956Imperial Woman. Buck's most accomplished later novel is this biographical reconstruction of the life of Tzu Hsi, the last empress of China.

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"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."

"Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him."

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."

"Love dies only when growth stops."

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Buck, ca. 1932.
Born June 26, 1892(1892-06-26)
Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States
Died March 6, 1973(1973-03-06) (aged 80)
Danby, Vermont, United States
Occupation Writer, Teacher
Nationality American
Subjects China
Notable award(s)

Pulitzer Prize
1932

Nobel Prize in Literature
1938
Spouse(s) John Lossing Buck (1917–1935)
Richard Walsh (1935–1960)until his death

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."[1]

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Life

The Stulting House at the Pearl Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia

Pearl Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, to Caroline Stulting (1857–1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker. Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries, traveled to China soon after their marriage on July 8, 1880, but returned to the United States for Pearl's birth. When Pearl was three months old, the family returned to China to be stationed first in Zhenjiang (then often known as Jingjiang or, in the Postal Romanization, Tsingkiang).[2] Pearl was raised in a bilingual environment, tutored in English by her mother and in classical Chinese by a Mr. Kung.[3]

Chinese man in Zhenjiang, c. 1900

The Boxer Uprising greatly affected Pearl and family; their Chinese friends deserted them, and Western visitors decreased.

In 1911, Pearl left China to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, US,[4] graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1914 and a member of Kappa Delta Sorority. From 1914 to 1933, she served as a Presbyterian missionary, but her views later became highly controversial in the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy, leading to her resignation.[5]

In 1914, Pearl returned to China. She married an agricultural economist, John Lossing Buck (hereafter in this article Pearl Buck is referred to simply as 'Buck'), on May 13, 1917, and they moved to Suzhou, Anhui Province, a small town on the Huai River (not to be confused with the better-known Suzhou in Jiangsu Province). It is this region she described later in The Good Earth and Sons.

From 1920 to 1933, the Bucks made their home in Nanking (Nanjing), on the campus of Nanjing University, where both had teaching positions. Buck taught English literature at the University of Nanking,金陵大学 and the National Central University,国立中央大学 (renamed to Nanjing University,南京大学 in 1949). In 1920, the Bucks had a daughter, Carol, afflicted with phenylketonuria. In 1921, Buck's mother died and shortly afterward her father moved in. In 1924, they left China for John Buck's year of sabbatical and returned to the United States for a short time, during which (Pearl) Buck earned her Masters degree from Cornell University. In 1925, the Bucks adopted Janice (later surnamed Walsh). That autumn, they returned to China.[5]

The tragedies and dislocations that Buck suffered in the 1920s reached a climax in March 1927, during the "Nanking Incident." In a confused battle involving elements of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, Communist forces, and assorted warlords, several Westerners were murdered. Since her father Absalom was a missionary, the family decided to stay in Nanjing until the battle reached the city. When violence broke out, a poor Chinese family allowed them to hide in their hut while the family house was looted. The family spent a day terrified and in hiding, after which they were rescued by American gunboats. They traveled to Shanghai and then sailed to Japan, where they stayed for a year.[6] They later moved back to Nanjing, though conditions remained dangerously unsettled. In 1934, they left China permanently.

In 1935 the Bucks were divorced. Richard Walsh, president of the John Day Company and Pearl Buck's publisher, became her second husband. Walsh offered her advice and affection which, her biographer concludes, "helped make Pearl's prodigious activity possible." The couple lived in Pennsylvania until his death in 1960.[7]

During the Cultural Revolution, Buck, as a preeminent American writer of Chinese peasant life, was denounced as an "American cultural imperialist." Buck was "heartbroken" when Madame Mao and high-level Chinese officials prevented her from visiting China with Richard Nixon in 1972.[8]

Pearl S. Buck died of lung cancer on March 6, 1973, in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. She designed her own tombstone. The grave marker is inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker.[9]

Humanitarian efforts

Buck was highly committed to and passionate about a range of issues that were largely ignored by her generation; many of her life experiences and political views are described in her novels, short stories, fiction, children's stories, and the biographies of her parents entitled Fighting Angel (on Absalom) and The Exile (on Carrie). She wrote on a diverse variety of topics including women's rights, Asian cultures, immigration, adoption, missionary work, and war.

In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Buck established Welcome House, Inc., the first international, interracial adoption agency. In nearly five decades of work, Welcome House has placed over five thousand children. In 1964, to support children who were not eligible for adoption, Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1965, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. When establishing Opportunity House, Buck said, "The purpose... is to publicize and eliminate injustices and prejudices suffered by children, who, because of their birth, are not permitted to enjoy the educational, social, economic and civil privileges normally accorded to children."[10]

In the late 1960s, Buck toured West Virginia to raise money to preserve her family farm in Hillsboro, WV. Today The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic house museum and cultural center.[11] She hoped the house would "belong to everyone who cares to go there," and serve as a "gateway to new thoughts and dreams and ways of life."[12]

Long before it was considered fashionable or politically safe to do so, Buck challenged the American public on topics such as racism, sex discrimination and the plight of the thousands of babies born to Asian women left behind and unwanted wherever American soldiers were based in Asia. During her life Buck combined the multiple careers of wife, mother, author, editor and political activist.[13]

Legacy

Contemporary reviewers were positive, and praised her "beautiful prose," even though her "style is apt to degenerate into overrepetition and confusion."[14] Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite the accolades awarded to her, Buck's contribution to literature has been mostly forgotten or deliberately ignored by America's cultural gatekeepers.[15] Kang Liao argues that Buck played a "pioneering role in demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind."[16] Phyllis Bentley, in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed: "But we may say at least that for the interest of her chosen material, the sustained high level of her technical skill, and the frequent universality of her conceptions, Mrs. Buck is entitled to take rank as a considerable artist. To read her novels is to gain not merely knowledge of China but wisdom about life."[17] These works aroused considerable popular sympathy for China, and helped foment poor relations with Japan.[18]

Anchee Min, author of a fictionalized life of Pearl Buck, broke down upon reading Buck's work, because she had portrayed the Chinese peasants "with such love, affection and humanity".[8]

Buck was honored by the United States Postal Service with a 5¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.[citation needed] In 1999 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.[19]

(賽珍珠故居) Buck's former residence at Nanjing University is now the Nanjing University Science and Technology Industry Group Building along the West Wall of the university's north campus. U.S. President George H.W. Bush toured the Pearl S. Buck House in October 1998. He expressed that he, like millions of other Americans, had gained an appreciation for the Chinese through Buck's writing.[20]

Selected bibliography

Autobiographies

  • My Several Worlds (1954)
  • A Bridge For Passing (1962)

Biographies

Novels

See also: List of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s
  • East Wind:West Wind (1930)
  • The House of Earth (1935)
  • The Mother (1933)
  • This Proud Heart (1938)
  • The Patriot (1939)
  • Other Gods (1940)
  • China Sky (1941)
  • Dragon Seed (1942)
  • The Promise (1943)
  • China Flight (1943)
  • The Townsman (1945) – as John Sedges
  • Portrait of a Marriage (1945)
  • Pavilion of Women (1946)
  • The Angry Wife (1947) – as John Sedges
  • Peony (1948)
  • The Big Wave (1948)
  • A Long Love (1949) – as John Sedges
  • The Bondmaid (1949) First Published in Great Britain
  • Kinfolk (1950)
  • God's Men (1951)
  • The Hidden Flower (1952)
  • Come, My Beloved (1953)
  • Voices in the House (1953) – as John Sedges
  • Imperial Woman (1956)
  • Letter from Peking (1957)
  • Command the Morning (1959)
  • Satan Never Sleeps (1962; see 1962 film Satan Never Sleeps)
  • The Living Reed (1963)
  • Death in the Castle (1965)
  • The Time Is Noon (1966)
  • Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1967)
  • The New Year (1968)
  • The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969)
  • Mandala (1970)
  • The Goddess Abides (1972)
  • All Under Heaven (1973)
  • The Rainbow (1974)

Non-fiction

  • Of Men and Women (1941)
  • How It Happens: Talk about the German People, 1914–1933, with Erna von Pustau (1947)
  • The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
  • The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen (1953) for young readers
  • My Several Worlds (1954)
  • For Spacious Skies (1966)
  • The People of Japan (1966)
  • The Kennedy Women (1970)
  • China as I See It (1970)
  • The Story Bible (1971)
  • Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972)

Long and Short Stories

  • The First Wife and Other Stories (1933)
  • Today and Forever: Stories of China (1941)
  • Twenty-Seven Stories (1943)
  • Far and Near: Stories of Japan, China, and America (1949)
  • Fourteen Stories (1961)
  • Hearts Come Home and Other Stories (1962)
  • Stories of China (1964)
  • Escape at Midnight and Other Stories (1964)
  • The Good Deed and Other Stories of Asia, Past and Present (1969)
  • Once Upon a Christmas (1972)
  • East and West Stories (1975)
  • Secrets of the Heart: Stories (1976)
  • The Lovers and Other Stories (1977)
  • Mrs. Stoner and the Sea and Other Stories (1978)
  • The Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories (1979)
  • The Good Deed (1969)
  • "Christmas Day in the Morning"
  • "The Refugee"
  • "The Chinese Children Next Door" (for children)
  • ″The Enemy"
  • "The Frill"
  • "The Golden Flower"

Awards

Museums and historic houses

Several historic sites work to preserve and display artifacts from Pearl's profoundly multicultural life:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Meyers, Mike. "Pearl of the Orient," New York Times. March 5, 2006.
  2. ^ Shavit, David (1990), The United States in Asia: a historical dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 480, ISBN 031326788X, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC  (Entry for "Sydenstricker, Absalom")
  3. ^ Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) 9, 19–23.
  4. ^ Randolph-Macon Woman's College
  5. ^ a b Conn, Pearl S. Buck, 70–82.
  6. ^ Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. Ed. Peter Conn. New York: Washington Square Press, 1994. Pp. xviii–xix.
  7. ^ Conn, Pearl S. Buck, 345.
  8. ^ a b NPR, "A Chinese Fan Of Pearl S. Buck Returns The Favor", All Things Considered, April 7, 2010. Accessed 7/4/10
  9. ^ Conn, Peter, Dragon and the Pearl
  10. ^ Pearl S. Buck International, "Our History," 2009.
  11. ^ The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, http://www.pearlsbuckbirthplace.com
  12. ^ Buck, Pearl S. My Mother's House. Richwood, WV: Appalachian Press. Pp. 30–1.
  13. ^ Conn, Pearl S. Buck, xv–xvi.
  14. ^ E.G. (1933). "Rev. of Sons". Pacific Affairs 6 (2/3): 112–15. 
  15. ^ Conn, Pearl S. Buck, xii–xiv.
  16. ^ Liao, Kang (1997). Pearl S. Buck: a cultural bridge across the Pacific. Greenwood. pp. 4. ISBN 9780313301469. 
  17. ^ Bentley, Phyllis (1935). "The Art of Pearl S. Buck". The English Journal 24 (10): 791–800. 
  18. ^ William L. O'Neill, A Democracy At War: America's Fight At Home and Abroad in World War II, p 57 ISBN 0-02-923678-9
  19. ^ "Honorees: 2010 National Women’s History Month". Women's History Month. National Women's History Project. 2010. http://nwhp.org/whm/honorees.php. Retrieved 14 November 2011. 
  20. ^ DDMap.com: 賽珍珠故居, http://nj.ddmap.com/map/25/point-659569-%C8%FC%D5%E4-.htm, retrieved 2010-02-21 
  21. ^ "Pearl S. Buck International: Other Pearl S. Buck Historic Places". Psbi.org. 2006-09-30. http://www.psbi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PSBH_Other_PSB_Historic_Places. Retrieved 2010-02-25. 

Bibliography

  • Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-521-56080-2.)
  • Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb, Frances E. Webb Peter J. Conn, eds., The Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck: Essays Presented at a Centennial Symposium, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, March 26–28, 1992 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0-313-29152-7.)
  • Theodore F. Harris ((in consultation with Pearl S. Buck), Pearl S. Buck: a Biography (John Day, June 1969. ISBN 978-0-381-98113-6 )
  • Theodore F. Harris ((in consultation with Pearl S. Buck), Pearl S. Buck; a biography. Volume two: Her philosophy as expressed in her letters (John Day, January 1971. ASIN B002BAA2PU )
  • Liao Kang, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Bridge across the Pacific (Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0-313-30146-8.)
  • Karen J. Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-520-24423-8.)
  • Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China, Profile Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-86197-828-8
  • Pearl Buck's Portrait of Her Fighting Missionary Father (NY Times, November 29, 1936.)

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