![]() ![]() She completed her course load in 1909, and moved back to the United States in 1910 to study philosophy at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Although her family returned to Chinkiang when the rebellion ended in 1901, Buck decided to attend boarding school in Shanghai in 1907. ![]() When she was 9 years old, the Boxer Rebellion forced Buck and her family to flee to Shanghai. Buck's parents were so committed to their missionary work that they decided to go back to the Chinese village of Chinkiang with 5-month-old Buck in tow.īeginning at the age of 6, Buck was homeschooled by her mother for the early part of the day, and taught by a Chinese tutor during the afternoon. At the time of her birth, her parents, both Presbyterian missionaries, were taking a leave from their work in China after some of Buck's older siblings had died of tropical disease. Buck was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Buck Foundation, a humanitarian organization. ![]() Concurrent with her writing career, she started the Pearl S. In 1938, Buck became the first American female Nobel laureate. Her next novel, The Good Earth, earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932. Buck published her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, in 1930. ![]()
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