- Born
- Died
- Birth namePearl Comfort Sydenstricker
- Nickname
- John Sedges
- Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood films, including The Good Earth (1937) and Dragon Seed (1944). She also wrote novels using the pen-name 'John Sedges', and she won the 'Nobel Prize' for Literature in 1938.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>
- SpousesRichard John Walsh(June 11, 1935 - May 28, 1960) (his death, 8 children)John Lossing Buck(May 13, 1917 - June 11, 1935) (divorced, 2 children)
- Was awarded the 1938 Nobel prize in literature.
- Pictured on a 5¢ US definitive postage stamp issued 25 June 1983.
- Charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
- Mother of 10 children: Caroline Grace Buck, born developmentally disabled in China in 1920, and her only natural child. She adopted a daughter, Janice, with her first husband, and the other eight were adopted during her second marriage.
- Some [mothers] are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
- The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
- A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
- Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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