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Novelist Pearl S. Buck Interview (Merv Griffin Show 1966)
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck talks with Merv about her newest book, her charity work helping Asian orphans fathered by US servicem...
Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us aware that on November 10, 1938 USA author Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was awarded the Nobel for Literature.
Rest in peace Pearl S. Buck!
Novelist Pearl S. Buck Interview (Merv Griffin Show 1966)
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck talks with Merv about her newest book, her charity work helping Asian orphans fathered by US servicemen, Communism in China and her new book ideas in this very rare interview from 1966. Merv Griffin had over 5000 guests appear on his show from 1963-1986.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMED93CAkE
Rest in peace Pearl S. Buck!
Novelist Pearl S. Buck Interview (Merv Griffin Show 1966)
Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist Pearl S. Buck talks with Merv about her newest book, her charity work helping Asian orphans fathered by US servicemen, Communism in China and her new book ideas in this very rare interview from 1966. Merv Griffin had over 5000 guests appear on his show from 1963-1986.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIMED93CAkE
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Pearl S. Buck: Biography, Influence on American & Chinese Cultural & Literary History (1997)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 -- March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an American wr...
Pearl S. Buck: Biography, Influence on American & Chinese Cultural & Literary History (1997)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 -- March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."
After her return to the United States in 1935, she continued her prolific writing career, and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed race adoption.
Many contemporary reviewers were positive, and praised her "beautiful prose," even though her "style is apt to degenerate into overrepetition and confusion."[20] Robert Benchley wrote a parody of The Good Earth that focused on just these qualities, to excellent effect. Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite the accolades awarded to her, Buck's contribution to literature has been mostly forgotten or deliberately ignored by America's cultural gatekeepers.[21] Kang Liao argues that Buck played a "pioneering role in demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind."[22] Phyllis Bentley, in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed: "But we may say at least that for the interest of her chosen material, the sustained high level of her technical skill, and the frequent universality of her conceptions, Mrs. Buck is entitled to take rank as a considerable artist. To read her novels is to gain not merely knowledge of China but wisdom about life."[23] These works aroused considerable popular sympathy for China, and helped foment poor relations with Japan.[24]
Anchee Min, author of a fictionalized life of Pearl Buck, broke down upon reading Buck's work, because she had portrayed the Chinese peasants "with such love, affection and humanity".[25]
Buck was honored in 1983 with a 5¢ Great Americans series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service[26] In 1999 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.[27]
(赛珍珠故居) Buck's former residence at Nanjing University is now the Sai Zhenzhu Memorial House along the West Wall of the university's north campus. U.S. President George H.W. Bush toured the Pearl S. Buck House in October 1998. He expressed that he, like millions of other Americans, had gained an appreciation for the Chinese through Buck's writing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0vJ28biuYA&t=8s
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 -- March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."
After her return to the United States in 1935, she continued her prolific writing career, and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed race adoption.
Many contemporary reviewers were positive, and praised her "beautiful prose," even though her "style is apt to degenerate into overrepetition and confusion."[20] Robert Benchley wrote a parody of The Good Earth that focused on just these qualities, to excellent effect. Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite the accolades awarded to her, Buck's contribution to literature has been mostly forgotten or deliberately ignored by America's cultural gatekeepers.[21] Kang Liao argues that Buck played a "pioneering role in demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind."[22] Phyllis Bentley, in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed: "But we may say at least that for the interest of her chosen material, the sustained high level of her technical skill, and the frequent universality of her conceptions, Mrs. Buck is entitled to take rank as a considerable artist. To read her novels is to gain not merely knowledge of China but wisdom about life."[23] These works aroused considerable popular sympathy for China, and helped foment poor relations with Japan.[24]
Anchee Min, author of a fictionalized life of Pearl Buck, broke down upon reading Buck's work, because she had portrayed the Chinese peasants "with such love, affection and humanity".[25]
Buck was honored in 1983 with a 5¢ Great Americans series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service[26] In 1999 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project.[27]
(赛珍珠故居) Buck's former residence at Nanjing University is now the Sai Zhenzhu Memorial House along the West Wall of the university's north campus. U.S. President George H.W. Bush toured the Pearl S. Buck House in October 1998. He expressed that he, like millions of other Americans, had gained an appreciation for the Chinese through Buck's writing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0vJ28biuYA&t=8s
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