Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl Buck
The person in this research paper is Pearl S. Buck. She was a famous writer on books about her and what is going on around the world. She lived most of her life in China, and some in the United States.
Pearl S. Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She spent her youth in China, in Chin kiang on the Yangtze River. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak English. Her parents were missionaries. Buck's father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was a very smart man who spent years translating the Bible from Greek to Chinese. Her mother, Caroline Stulting, had traveled widely in her youth and loved literature. Buck's life in China wasn’t very good. When she was only a child, her family was forced to flee from the rebel forces of the Boxer Rebellion.1
After being taught by her mother and a Chinese tutor, who was a Confucian scholar, Buck was sent to a boarding school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen. She also worked for the Door of Hope, a shelter for Chinese slave girls. Buck continued her education in the United States at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia, and studied psychology there. After graduating in 1914 she returned to China as a teacher for the Presbyterian Board of Missions. Her mother was very ill and Buck had to spend the next two years taking care of her. She married Dr. John Lossing Buck, an agricultural expert, who loved his work. When her mother became better, they moved into a village in the North China.2
Buck worked as a teacher and interpreter for her husband and traveled through the countryside. During this period China took steps toward liberal reform, also through the May 4th Movement of 1917 to 1921.

In the 1920s the Bucks moved to Nan king, where she taught English and American literature at the university. In 1924 she returned to the United States to seek medical care for he first daughter who was mentally retarded. In 1926 she received her M.A. in literature from Cornell Univer...