| Pearl S. Buck  AKA Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
Born: 26-Jun-1892
Birthplace: Hillsboro, WV
Died: 6-Mar-1973
Location of death: Danby, VT
Cause of death: Cancer - Lung
Remains: Buried, Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Good Earth Father: Absalom Sydenstricker
Mother: Caroline Sydenstricker
Husband: John Lossing Buck (agro economist, m. 13-May-1917, div. 1934, two children)
Daughter: Carol (with Buck, mentally retarded, b. 1921)
Daughter: Janice (with Buck, adopted in 1925)
Husband: Richard J. Walsh (pub. for John Day Company, m. 1935, 6 children adopted)
University: BA, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA (1914)
University: MA, Cornell University (1925)
Teacher: University of Nanking
Kappa Delta Sorority
National Women's Hall of Fame
Nobel Prize for Literature 1938
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1932 for The Good Earth
William Dean Howells Medal 1935
Hysterectomy
Cholecystectomy (Sep-1972)
Author of books:
East Wind: West Wind (1930)
The Good Earth (1931, novel)
Sons (1932, novel)
A House Divided (1935, novel)
My Several Worlds (1954)
Imperial Woman (1956)
Command the Morning (59)
A Bridge for Passing (1962)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #1848 (5 cents, issued 25-Jun-1983)
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