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Pearl S. Buck
Chinese women Nobel Prize winner, author, teacher, missionary (1892–1973)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 June 1892, 1892
- Died
- 6 March 1973, 1973
- Place of birth
- Hillsboro
- Place of death
- Danby
- Sex or gender
- female
- Family name
- Sydenstricker, Buck, Walsh
- Father
- Absalom Sydenstricker
- Sibling
- Edgar Sydenstricker
- Genre
- biography
- Field of work
- Chinese culture, English-language literature
- Occupation
- translator, novelist, autobiographer, human rights defender, screenwriter, journalist, children's writer, writer, missionary, prose writer, teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Presbyterianism
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Nobel Prize in Literature, Horatio Alger Award, National Women's Hall of Fame
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- birth name
- Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), American Women Writers, Our hidden heritage : Pennsylvania women in history, American Women Writers, 1900-1945 : A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Biographical dictionary of Christian missions, History of Missiology, American Novelists of Today
- educated at
- Cornell University, Randolph–Macon College
- employer
- Nanjing University
- has works in the collection
- Centraal Museum, Memoria Chilena, Groninger Museum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, Mandarin, Standard Chinese
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck Walsh
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- notable work
- The Exile, Fighting Angel, East Wind: West Wind, The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided, China Sky, Dragon Seed, Peony, The Big Wave, Imperial Woman, Letter from Peking
- number of children
- 8
- place of burial
- Perkasie
- pseudonym
- John Sedges
- represented by
- Harold Ober Associates
- start of work period
- 1930
- topic has template
- Template:Pearl S. Buck
- topic's main category
- Category:Pearl S. Buck
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