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| Pearl Buck Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, social activist... Pearl Buck was all of these things and more. She was born in West Virginia in 1892, but her parents were missionaries, and when she was 3 months old, the family moved to China, where Pearl spent 40 years of her life. She became bilingual very early, as she was home-taught by her mother and a Chinese tutor. Her father, Absalom, would be gone months at a time seeking converts, while her mother ran a small dispensary for the villagers. This left Pearl with lots of spare time to absorb the Chinese culture. She returned to America for college, and after graduating from Randolph-Mason Women's College in 1914, returned to China. There she met the agricultural expert John Buck. They married in 1917, and it was then that Pearl began to gather background for the stories that she would write. She published short stories in The Nation and Atlantic Monthly, then turned out her first full-length effort, East Wind, West Wind. The Good Earth came next. It was a blockbuster novel, and Pearl was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it. She kept on writing novels with Chinese backgrounds, and in 1938, not quite 10 years after her first book, she won the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1939, she returned to America, where she and her second husband began to adopt a family. She became active in the civil rights movement, and established Welcome House, the first international, inter-racial adoption agency. She also established a foundation that provides funding for thousands of children in almost a dozen Asian countries. By the time of Pearl Buck's death in 1973, she had published over seventy novels. George Alex Windish has been writing for many years, and has become a better typist, if nothing else. He has placed nearly a dozen short stories of horror and science fiction, has had a weekly column in a local Baltimore newspaper, and has written for and edited COUNTRY LINE, a small Pennsylvania magazine. He has also done ad copy and correspondence for businesses. He has long been a fan of genre literature and truly tacky movies, as well as being a collector of vintage records. Contact him at Imagineer7777@aol.com.
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