MPARA EPAR@ ` ▌TEXT ` ╧Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker1892╨1973novelist and short-story writerBorn on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was raised in Chenchiang in eastern China by her Presbyterian missionary parents. Initially educated by her mother and a Chinese tutor, she was sent at fifteen to a boarding school in Shanghai. Two years later she entered Randolph╨Macon Woman╒s College in Virginia, graduating in 1914 and remaining for a semester as an instructor in psychology. In May 1917 she married missionary John L. Buck; although later divorced and remarried, she retained the name professionally. She returned to China and taught English literature in Chinese universities in 1925╨1930. During that time she briefly resumed studying in the United States at Cornell University, where she took her M.A. in 1926. She began contributing articles on Chinese life to American magazines in 1922. Buck╒s first published novel, East Wind, West Wind, 1930, was written aboard a ship headed for America. The Good Earth, 1931, a poignant tale of a Chinese peasant and his slave-wife and their struggle upward, was a best-seller, won a Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal, and established her as an interpreter of the East to the West. The book was made into a stage play and an Academy Award-winning film. With Sons, 1932, and A House Divided, 1935, it formed a trilogy, The House of Earth. Pearl Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Subsequently she wrote biographies of her parents, The Exile and Fighting Angel, both 1936 (published together as The Spirit and the Flesh in 1944), and a long series of novels and short story collections, including The First Wife, 1933, The Mother, 1934, The Patriot, 1939, Dragon Seed, 1942, The Promise, 1943, The Dragon Fish, 1944, Pavilion of Women, 1946, Peony, 1948, Imperial Woman, 1956, Letter from Peking, 1957, The Living Reed, 1963, and The Three Daughters of Madame Liang, 1969. She also published several novels under the pseudonym John Sedges, including a best-seller, The Townsman, 1945. Buck wrote a number of children╒s books and three volumes of autobiography, My Several Worlds, 1954, A Bridge for Passing, 1962, and For Spacious Skies, 1966. Her interest in cultural understanding led her to found the East╨West Association in 1941. In 1949 she founded Welcome House and in 1963 the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, both dedicated to the care of unwanted children. She died in Danby, Vermont, on March 6, 1973. Fstyl ` 6 ! ¬ 5¬ $ 5¬ E !I Ö 5¬ Ü !I ╕ !I ╠ !I !I !I 8 !I < !I H !I W !I t !I å !I ⁿ !I !I
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