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'''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892-1972) was a [[novelist]] and [[Presbyterian]] missionary who received both a Pulitzer and [[Nobel Prize]]. Despite being forced to resign from the ''Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions'' by the actions of [[John Gresham Machen]]<ref name=Hart> Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." ''[[Modern Age]]'' 1997 39(3): 234-245.</ref>, she wrote a tribute to Machen in the [[New Republic]]:

'''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892-1972) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China. Her novel ''The Good Earth'' (1931), about the travails and triumphs of Chinese peasants, won both a Pulitzer and [[Nobel Prize]] and became a worldwide best-seller and the basis of a popular film.  

 

Although she was not herself a missionary she served on the ''Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions'' until forced out by the actions of [[John Gresham Machen]]<ref name=Hart> Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." ''[[Modern Age]]'' 1997 39(3): 234-245.</ref> She wrote a tribute to Machen in the [[New Republic]]:

{{cquote| [Machen] was worth a hundred of his fellows who, as princes of the church, occupy easy places and play their church politics and trim their sails to every wind.<ref name=Hart/>}}

{{cquote| [Machen] was worth a hundred of his fellows who, as princes of the church, occupy easy places and play their church politics and trim their sails to every wind.<ref name=Hart/>}}

 

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