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Buck, Pearl S. (1892–1973)
First American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, who was the widely read author of over 100 books and has been translated into 69 foreign languages. Name variations: (occasional pseudonym) John Sedges.
Born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, West Virginia; died on March 6, 1973, in Danby, Vermont; daughter of Absalom and Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (Presbyterian missionaries); spent her childhood and youth in China; taught at home by her mother and Chinese tutors; attended boarding school in Shanghai; graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College; Cornell University, M.A.
in English, 1936; married John Lossing Buck (an agricultural missionary) 1917 (divorced, 1935); married Richard J. Walsh (editor of Asia Magazine and head of John Day Company), in 1935; children: (first marriage) two daughters, Carol and Janice; (adopted) many.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize, William Dean Howells Medal for Disti