Biography
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. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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Filmography
all 11
Movies 10
Writer 8
self 2
TV Shows 1
Writer
Pavilion of Women (2001)
Movie
Writer
The Gift (1977)
Movie
Self
China: The Roots of Madness (1967)
Movie
Writer
Guide (1965)
Movie
Self
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
TV
Writer
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Movie
Writer
The Big Wave (1961)
Movie
Writer
Die große Woge (1958)
Movie
Writer
China Sky (1945)
Movie
Writer
Dragon Seed (1944)
Movie
6
Novel
The Good Earth (1937)
Movie
Ratings
Average 5.61
Based on 18.6 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
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1958
1962
1977
2001
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1892-06-25
Deathday1973-03-06 (80 years old)
Birth NamePearl Comfort Sydenstricker
Birth PlaceHillsboro, United States of America
ReligionPresbyterianism
Height
RelationshipsRichard J. Walsh (1935-01-01 - 1960-01-01), John Lossing Buck (1917-05-13 - 1935-01-01)
ChildrenCaroline Grace Buck, Janice Comfort Walsh
FatherAbsalom Sydenstricker
MotherCaroline Maude Stulting Sydenstricker
SiblingsEdgar Sydenstricker
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsPearl Sydenstricker Buck
AwardsHoratio Alger Award, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Women's Hall of Fame, Nobel Prize in Literature
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