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About Pearl S. Buck
American writer and humanitarian
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. Born in 1892 and active in the 20th century, she is best known for the novel The Good Earth and for becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and earned Buck the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. The Nobel committee cited her rich, epic portrayals of peasant life in China and her memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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- “Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.”Pearl S. Buck
- “The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allo…”Pearl S. Buck
- “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.”Pearl S. Buck
- “Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his ow…”Pearl S. Buck
Explore Youth
- “I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to ha…”Charlotte Eriksson
- “He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them sa…”Walter Scott
- “Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go…”Gabriel García Márquez
Explore Joy
- “I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever want…”Beth Revis
- “Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn't giv…”Darrell Drake
- “You need to be able to find joy in something that requires so much of yourself. I have to have that deeper me…”Maya Moore
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Books by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
1960
Peony
1997
Pavilion of Women
1968
The Mother
2012
The Big Wave
1986