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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the 1932 play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck.
O-Lan is a fictional character in Pearl S. Buck's 1931 novel The Good Earth. For her portrayal of the character in the 1937 film adaptation , Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress . Character biography
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 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).
The Exile by Pearl S. Buck, a biography about Pearl's mother Carrie Stulting; My Mother's House by Pearl S. Buck, Appalachian Press, Richwood W. Va., 1965. Fighting Angel by Pearl S. Buck, a biography about Pearl's father Absalom Sydenstricker; Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn; Betsy Edgar, Our House: The Birthplace of Pearl S ...
East Wind: West Wind is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1930, [1] her first. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her family undergo. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her family undergo.
Letter from Peking is a 1957 novel by Pearl S. Buck. [1] The story is about a loving interracial marriage between Gerald and Elizabeth MacLeod, their separation due to the communist uprising in China in 1949, and their separate lives in China and America.