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| − | '''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892-1972) was a | + | '''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. |
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| + | 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/>}} | ||
| − | + | ==further reading== | |
| + | * Conn, Peter. ''Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography.'' (1996). 468 pp. | ||
| + | * Lian, Xi. ''The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in | ||
| + | American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932.'' (1997). | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Authors]][[Category:Novelists]] | [[Category:Authors]][[Category:Novelists]] | ||
Revision as of 22:34, March 26, 2009
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[1] She wrote a tribute to Machen in the New Republic:
| “ | [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.[1] | ” |
further reading
- Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography. (1996). 468 pp.
- Lian, Xi. The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in
American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932. (1997).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." Modern Age 1997 39(3): 234-245.