Pearl S. Buck (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Conn
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1892-1973
- Setting: China and the United States
- Principal Characters: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Absalom Sydenstricker, Caroline “Carie” Stulting Sydenstricker, John Lossing Buck, Richard Walsh
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Authors or writers, Literature, Missions or missionaries, Women’s issues, Adoption or adopted children, China or Chinese people, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: United States, China
Between the publication of The Good Earth in 1931, and her death in 1973, Pearl S. Buck was one of the best-known women in the world. Her books and her humanitarian activities brought her both wide acclaim and occasional hostility. Even as she was regularly singled out as one of the most admired women in the United States, her FBI file grew thicker, support of international cooperation and racial equality being, in the eyes of J. Edgar Hoover, subversive activities. Yet by 1992, the centennial of her birth, she had almost faded from the public memory, except as the author of one...
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