Pearl S. Buck: Bridging Her Legacy

It is a Universal Story Told with the Music of a Fitting Style which Makes it Universal Art." Carl Van Doren, Introduction to The Good EarthThe name Pearl S. Buck, or Sai Zhenzhu, is familiar to many as the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth.Others know of the adoption agency she founded or are aware of her as a civil rights activist and humanitarian.Scholars have taken an interest in Ms. Buck for decades with varying opinions about her literary and humanitarian career.During her lifetime Ms. Buck was viewed as an outsider torn between two cultures.Was she Chinese or American?This may have made scholars critical of her, but her several worlds also made her uniquely poised