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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠), was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
After returning to the United States in 1935, she continued writing prolifically and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption.
Originally named Comfort by her parents, Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, to Caroline Stulting (1857–1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker. Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries, traveled to China soon after their marriage on July 8, 1880, but returned to the United States for Pearl's birth. When Pearl was five months old, the family arrived in China, first in Huai'an and then in 1896 moved to Zhenjiang (then often known as Jingjiang or, in the postal, Tsingkiang), near Nanking.
West Virginia University, West Virginia Wesleyan College and the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation formed a partnership to preserve and disseminate the legacy of Pearl S. Buck. As part of that agreement, a priceless collection of literary manuscripts by Buck will be housed at the WVU Libraries.
West Virginia Scenic Highway, Droop Mountain State Park, Watoga State Park, and Pearl S. Buck birthplace are all part of this beautiful video of Pocahontas County, West Virginia. If you are from one of those places that believe there couldn't be a more beautiful place in the world to be in fall, then you know how we feel about our beloved West Virginia.
In this clip from the "Discover the Legacy" Tour at the Pearl S. Buck House, visitors listen to a reading of Pearl S. Buck's first person account of the night the very first child whose life she would change, arrived at the front door of her home in Perkasie, PA in 1948. Just before this clip, the visitors entered her home through the same front door where that child was passed through. Today, Pearl S. Buck International, the humanitarian organization she founded starting with that first child, has helped changed the lives of over 2 million children, family and community members through child adoption, child sponsorship and public programs at her National Historic Landmark home in Bucks County, PA.
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http://amaon.net/MerryChristmasday Christmas Day In The Morning By Pearl S Buck | James Herriot'S The Christmas Day Kitten | Christmas Day In The Morning Short Story "Hi, I'm Koya Webb, Author of Koya's Cuisine: Foods You Love That Love You Back. And I'm going to show you how to make a vegetable tree. My favorite vegetable to carve are cucumbers and I want to show you how to make this vegetable tree. First, you start with a whole cucumber, you cut it in half and you cut the bottom side off of it. You're going to place the cucumber down in your cutting board and you're going to start just by making a round circle incision to your cucumber, nice and thin incision here and then you're going to do the same thing on the other side. And you're going to just come to a point at the top and then ...
http://amaon.net/MerryChristmasday Setting Of Christmas Day In The Morning By Pearl S Buck | Christmas Day In The Morning | Christmas Day Weather Forecast Adelaide 2012 "All right, everyone loves a snowman, so we're going to take our white frosting, just the plain white frosting we have, the shortening based frosting, not the thin one. It?s a little thicker. And since the snowman is going to be white. Uh oh, that's a hole lot of icing. Maybe enough for both of them. We're just going to put some icing on the snowman. We're going to grab a knife and, actually we're going to take some icing off of this snowman that might be a little too much. And we're going to go all the way up to the top. And like I said, you want to try to follow the contour of your design. And that is too much icing, so ...
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Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck talks with Merv about her newest book, her charity work helping Asian orphans fathered by US servicemen, Communism in China and her new book ideas in this very rare interview from 1966. Merv Griffin had over 5000 guests appear on his show from 1963-1986. Footage from the Merv Griffin Show is available for licensing to all forms of media through Reelin' In The Years Productions. http://www.reelinintheyears.com.
An interview with Nobel Prize winning author Pearl S Buck. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d1d5de79f5fc64ac9424fedf707038b3 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Interview with kindergarten teacher Judy Oswald about the new Neshaminy School District all-day kindergarten program.
http://www.fcpartnership.org/ Foundations Community Partnership hosts FCP Conversations Online with Bucks County Non Profit Leaders. In this episode Ron Bernstein interviews Janet Mintzer of Pearl S. Buck International www.pearlsbuck.org The mission of FCP is to support the behavioral health and human service needs of children and young adults in Bucks County and provides grants and technical assistance to non-profit organizations, awards scholarships to Bucks County high school seniors, subsidizes service learning internships for college students, underwrites community education programs and supports behavioral health education and research.
Interview with Author, Pearl S. Buck
Item title reads - The Nobel Festival at Stockholm. Sweden. Author Pearl Buck receives Nobel Prize from King Gustav of Sweden for her book 'The Good Earth.' Aerial L/S of the ornate room with various dignitaries gathered for the presentation ceremony. M/S as King Gustav walks in with his Queen (?). M/S of Pearl Buck and others coming forward and bowing. L/S of the scene. M/S as Pearl walks down the steps and bows to King Gustav, they shake hands. L/S as everyone applauds. Aerial L/S as the National Anthem is played and everyone stands. FILM ID:989.44 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britis...
PSB Foundation Interview Meredith Richardson, Australia. Film Archival footage. PSB in China. Child Adoption Agency. The Good Earth.
"She was a builder of bridges between China and the rest of the world," says Edgar Walsh of his mother, Pearl S. Buck. In this mini-documentary, Walsh describes how his mother was "ideally positioned to write about China." Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. After she survived the violent Nanking Incident of 1927, Buck began to write seriously. Her second novel, The Good Earth, became a bestselling classic for its portrait of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. Watch this video to learn more about Buck's unique life, which she drew on for her Nobel Prize-winning body of work. Learn more at: http://www.openroadmedia.com/authors/pearl-s-buck.aspx