Novelist Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck

Living place: West Virginia

Birthday: 26-6-1892

Global rank: #27977

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Who is Novelist Pearl S. Buck?
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good Earth, a novel that paints a fascinating picture of Chinese peasant life. She has written nearly forty other novels, as well as numerous short stories and works of non-fiction, and she is also a staunch supporter of many humanitarians.
In 1938, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She temporarily left China to study at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia, and later, she taught English literature at several Chinese universities. In addition, she received a diploma from Cornell University, New York.

Family life info

She was born in West Virginia to Presbyterian missionary parents, and she spent a large part of her childhood in China. She was married to agricultural economist, John Losing Buck, 1917-1935. Her second marriage was to Richard Walsh.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Pearl S. Buck?
She and her co-author, John Steinbeck, are both Nobel laureates.

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When was Novelist Pearl S. Buck born?
Pearl S. Buck was born in 26-6-1892, death year is , at the age of 132.
Where is Novelist Pearl S. Buck's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Pearl S. Buck's global rank is 27977 and whose rank is 127 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1892 and 26-6

Birthday Pearl S. Buck (26-6) in history

  • Day 26-6 year 1819: The bicycle was patented by W. K. Clarkson.
  • Day 26-6 year 1843: Hong Kong was proclaimed a British crown colony.
  • Day 26-6 year 1906: The first Grand Prix motor race was held in Le Mans, France.
  • Day 26-6 year 1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway, connecting the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, was opened.
  • Day 26-6 year 1963: President John Kennedy gave his, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) speech in West Berlin.
  • Day 26-6 year 1976: The CN tower in Toronto opened, then the world's tallest free-standing structure.
  • Day 26-6 year 2000: The first map of the human genome, which required decoding more than 3 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, is completed.
  • Day 26-6 year 2003: Former South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond died at age 100.
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