Biography
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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Filmography
all 11
Movies 10
Writer 5
self 2
TV Shows 1
Writer
The Gift (1977)
Movie
Writer
Guide (1965)
Movie
Writer
The Big Wave (1961)
Movie
Writer
Die große Woge (1958)
Movie
Novel
China Sky (1945)
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Known For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1892-06-26
Deathday
1973-03-06 (80 years old)
Birth Name
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
Birth Place
Hillsboro, United States
Religion
Presbyterianism
Height
Relationships
Richard J. Walsh (1935 - 1960), John Lossing Buck (1917 - 1935)
Children
Caroline Grace Buck, Janice Comfort Walsh
Father
Absalom Sydenstricker
Mother
Caroline Maude Stulting Sydenstricker
Siblings
Edgar Sydenstricker
Citizenships
United States
Also Known As
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Awards
Horatio Alger Award, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Women's Hall of Fame, Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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