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Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (name changed to Pearl S. Buck International in 1999) [29] to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1964, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
The Pearl Buck house is open to the public for daily tours seven days a week. Pearl S. Buck International currently offers two house tours to visitors: Pearl S. Buck: Taking Action, [6] [7] which focuses on Ms. Buck's activism and human rights advocacy, and the more traditional biographical and historic Pearl S. Buck: Life and Legacy Tour.
The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic home in Hillsboro, West Virginia where American writer Pearl S. Buck was born. The home now serves as a museum offering ...
Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (Chinese: 賽 兆 祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. [1] [2] The Sydenstricker log house at what later became the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home.
The Exile (New York: John Day, 1936) is a memoir/biography, or work of creative non-fiction, written by Pearl S. Buck about her mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing her life growing up in West Virginia and life in China as the wife of the Presbyterian missionary Absalom Sydenstricker. The book is deeply critical of ...
The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in an early 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei.It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
In 1917, Buck married Pearl Sydenstricker, who subsequently became famous under her married name Pearl S. Buck.In 1920 they had a child, Carol Grace, and in 1925 adopted Janice.
The Big Wave is a children's novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published as a short story in the October 1947 issue of the magazine Jack and Jill with illustrations from Ann Eshner Jaffe. [1] Buck expanded the story and published it in book form in 1948 through John Day Company , with illustrations from Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai .