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American · 1892-1973 · 32 quotes
American · 1892–1973
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Pearl S. Buck was the American novelist who spent her childhood in China as the daughter of missionaries, returned to America at forty, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 — the first American woman to do so. Her novel The Good Earth, published in 1931, was the best-selling novel in America for two consecutive years and brought Chinese rural life into American living rooms with a vividness that changed how the country thought about Asia. She wrote more than seventy books, founded Pearl S. Buck International to support mixed-race children in Asia, and worked continuously for civil rights and gender equality at a time when both causes were unfashionable. Her aphorisms have the plainness of someone who has watched real hardship: you cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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