“If
you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”
– Pearl Buck
Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of The Good Earth,
a novel that paints a compelling picture of Chinese peasant life, Pearl Buck
saw the world unfolding around her and chronicled it in a writing style that
melded the past and present with clarity and intensity. Over her lifetime she penned nearly 40 other
novels, as well as numerous short stories and non-fiction works.
Born
this date in 1892 in the backwoods of West Virginia, she spent much of her
growing up years in rural areas of China where her parents were
missionaries. Throughout her adult life,
she was a staunch supporter of multiple humanitarian causes, particularly in
support of overcoming poverty faced by children, whether in Asia or America.
After
winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 (the first American woman to win
the award), she utilized her prize money to establish the East and West
Association, and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation to address humanitarian issues
around the globe, but particularly in helping Asian and Asian American children. For
more than 50 years she spoke out and wrote against injustice whenever and
wherever she saw it.
“The truth is always important and exciting,”
she said. “Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
Pearl Buck
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