Pearl Buck

See also: Buck

Pearl Sydenstricher Buck (June 26th 1892 - March 6th 1973), born in Hillsborough (Virginia) with the the United States, is a American Woman of letters .

Biography

Whereas it has only 3 months, his/her parents missionaries leave in China close to Chinkiang, then with Shanghai. It then will learn Chinese. It makes its academic works with Randolph Macon in Virginia, then turns over to China where it marries John Buck, an American agricultural engineer in 1917, with which it leaves for China North. The revolution the growth to return to the the United States, where she divorces.

In 1930 appears its first novel inspired by the China: Wind East, Wind of West . In 1931, the Chinese ground is an immense success (equal to that of Quo Vadis). It is the first woman to obtain the Prix Pulitzer in 1932 for the Chinese Earth . This work is prolonged by the wire of Wang Lung (1932) and the dispersed Family (1935).

It poses the problem of the woman artist in a proud heart (1938), where it exposes the conflict of a woman between her work of sculptor and its life of wife and mother. The mental disease of his/her daughter inspires to in particular the child to him who could not grow (1950). Pearl Buck is prize winner of the Nobel Prize of literature in 1938.

It created in Pennsylvania a foundation for the adoption of the abandoned children and devoted time and money to it. Pearl Buck died in 1973 with Danby in the Vermont.

Oeuvres

  • the hidden Fleur , 1938
  • the Bread of the men , 1938
  • the New Gods
  • Blood ties
  • the magic Dragon
  • the great adventure
  • I will never forget
  • a certain star
  • Korean Ground , 1963
  • the Abandoned children
  • the phantom King , 1964
  • Contes of the East , 1965
  • the Life does not await , 1966
  • the History of Kim Christopher
  • the Large Friends
  • With my daughters
  • the love remains

Novels

  • Wind East, Wind of West ( East Wind, West Wind ), 1930
  • Chinese ground ( The Good Earth ), 1931
  • wire of Wang Lung ( Sounds ), 1932
  • the mother ( The Mother ), 1933
  • the dispersed family ( has House Divided ), 1935
  • a proud heart ( This Proud Heart ), 1938
  • the patriot ( The Patriot ), 1939
  • Other gods ( Other Gods ), 1940
  • Wire of dragon ( Dragon Seed ), 1942
  • Promise ( The Promised ), 1943
  • History of a marriage ( Portrait off has Marriage ), 1945
  • Pavillon of women ( Pavilion off Women ), 1946
  • the Wife in anger ( The Angry Wife ), 1947 (under the pseudonym of John Sedges)
  • Peony ( Peony ), 1948
  • a long love ( has Long Coils ), 1949 (under the pseudonym of John Sedges)
  • Viens, my beloved ( Like, My Beloved ), 1953
  • voices in the house ( Voices in the House ), 1953 (under the pseudonym of John Sedges)
  • Impératrice of China ( Imperial Woman ), 1956
  • the Letter of Beijing ( Letter from Peking ), 1957
  • Es you the Master of the paddle ( Command the Morning ), 1959
  • a history of China ( Satan Never Sleeps ), 1962
  • three girls of Mrs Liang ( The Three Daughters off Mrs Liang ), 1969
  • Mandala , 1970
  • the Rainbow ( The Rainbow ), 1974

News

  • the first woman of Yuan ( First Wife and Other Stories ), 1933
  • From here and besides ( Far and Near ), 1947
  • the green sari ( The Good Deed and Other Stories ), 1969

Not-romantic works

  • Exiled the ( The Exiles ), 1936
  • the angel combatant ( Fighting Angel ), 1936
  • Of Men and Women , 1941 (not traduit)
  • the Child who was to never grow ( The Child Who Never Grew ), 1950
  • the Worlds which I knew ( My Several Worlds ), 1954
  • For a more blue sky ( For Spacious Skies ), 1966
  • People of Japan ( The People off Japan ), 1966
  • The Kennedy Women , 1970
  • My vision of China ( Clouded ace I See It ), 1970

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