
...1892
(115 years ago today), Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, to a Presbyterian missionary couple. When she was 3 her family would move to
China, location of
The Good Earth and the many other works that she would write under the name
Pearl S. Buck (left). Active in rights campaigns on behalf of
women, African-Americans, and mixed-race children, Buck became, in 1938, the 1st American woman to win the
Nobel Prize in literature.
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