Pear S Buck

Pear S Buck (1892-1973), full name Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, was a US writer and novelist. She was raised in China, went to US and returned to China in adulthood to work as a missionary. Sh is best known for her novel "The Good Earth" which was a bestselling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 she became winner of Nobel Prize in literature for the novel The Good Earth, substantially based on her knowledge of china.

Wisdom & Quotes

• As I watched her at play ... It came to me that this child would pass life as the angels live in Heaven. The difficulties of existence would never be hers.

- The Child Who Never Grew, on her mentally retarded daughter

• It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

- What America Means to Me

• None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

- What America Means to Me

• Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

- What America Means to Me

• To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

- The Joy of Children

E H Carr