Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buckwas an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 June 1892
CountryUnited States of America
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.