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    Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling...
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    The Pearl S. Buck House, formerly known as Green Hills Farm, is the 67-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Nobel-prize-winning American...
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    The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic home in Hillsboro, West Virginia where American writer Pearl S. Buck was born. The home now serves as a museum...
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  • Pearl S. Buck House may refer to either of two locations: Green Hills Farm, the Bucks County, Pennsylvania location where Pearl S. Buck lived for 40 years...
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  • a PhD in 1933. In 1917, Buck married Pearl Sydenstricker, who subsequently became famous under her married name Pearl S. Buck. In 1920 they had a child...
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  • The Good Earth (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei...
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  • East Wind: West Wind (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    East Wind: West Wind is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1930, her first. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her...
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    Fair Pearl S. Buck Overlook at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park Beartown State Park Old Town of Hillsboro Route 219 in Hillsboro Pearl S. Buck, author...
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    The Big Wave (film) (category Films based on works by Pearl S. Buck)
    Tsuburaya. Produced by Stratton Productions and Toho, it is based on Pearl S. Buck's 1948 novel of the same name. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Mickey...
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    the protagonist of The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Pearl S. Buck and the first volume of her House of Earth trilogy. Lung begins life...
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  • (1930) Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932) The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933) Lamb in His Bosom...
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  • The Mother is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in New York by the John Day Company in 1934. It follows the life of peasant woman in rural China...
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  • Guide (film) (category Films scored by S. D. Burman)
    wife of a wealthy archaeologist. A 120-minute U.S. version titled The Guide was written by Pearl S. Buck and directed and produced by Tad Danielewski. For...
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  • (1930) Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932) The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933) Lamb in His Bosom...
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    Horowitz, Bobby Fischer, Luciano Pavarotti, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Pearl S. Buck, Deng Xiaoping, Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah...
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    Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. London: Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–154. ISBN 978-0-521-63989-7. Smylie, James H (January 2004). "Pearl Buck's...
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  • name comes from the Chinese heroine of the novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Her father left the family when she was a child. Her mother Scarlett...
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  • A House Divided (novel) (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    A House Divided is a historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck first published by John Day Company in 1935. The story centers on the third...
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  • alumnae include author Pearl S. Buck, who won the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize, food and travel author Frances Mayes, former U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln...
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  • The Story Bible is a book by Pearl S. Buck summarizing the whole Bible in two separate volumes: Vol. 1, The Old Testament, and Vol. 2, The New Testament...
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  • of India is a novel written by Pearl S. Buck in 1970. Centering her story around a princely family of the New India, Buck explores the mysticism that pervades...
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    Dietrich; Fischer, Erika J. (1997). Novel/Fiction Awards 1917–1994: From Pearl S. Buck and Margaret Mitchell to Ernest Hemingway and John Updike. The Pulitzer...
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    1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Pearl S. Buck)
    author Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." Buck was the...
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    father, who served in the U.S. military in South Korea and was brought up by her mother alone, with the assistance of Pearl S. Buck International's child sponsorship...
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    the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home. He was of German descent. His daughter, Pearl S. Buck, became...
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  • is a memoir/biography, or work of creative non-fiction, written by Pearl S. Buck about her mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing...
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  • Green Hills Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, also known as the Pearl S. Buck House A.W. Buck House, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania Buck's Upper Mill Farm, Bucksville...
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  • The Big Wave (category Novels by Pearl S. Buck)
    The Big Wave is a children's novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published as a short story in the October 1947 issue of the magazine Jack and Jill with illustrations...
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    Off-Broadway: Variety Arts Theatre – 1997 "The Dragon and the Pearl," by Marty Martin, bio of Pearl S. Buck, commissioned by Cacciotti. The play workshopped at...
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  • novelist Pearl S. Buck and was formalized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Many people were born to East or Southeast Asian women and U.S. servicemen...
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