Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of June 26th
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It is the 177th day of the year, leaving 188 days remaining in 2022.
She told her stories, mostly about China and the Chinese people, with poignancy and a desire to bring Asian tales to the West.
Although born in the United States, she was mostly reared and educated in various parts of China by her missionary parents. However, she returned to the United States to graduate from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia, and Cornell University in New York.
As an adult, she returned to China to teach, write, and live as a missionary. She moved to Pennsylvania in 1930. After the Communist Revolution in 1949, she was refused entry into China and never again visited, which, she said, left her heartbroken.
In 1922, she was teaching and writing stories from her home in Nanjing about life in China for various publications in the United States. She wrote her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, aboard a U.S.-bound ship in 1930.
The next year, she wrote The Good Earth, about a Chinese peasant and his slave-wife, who were struggling to survive and improve their lives. It was critically praised, widely translated, and a best seller, and its adaptation for the stage and screen brought Buck more acclaim. It also won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Two follow-up books. Sons and A House Divided, constituted a trilogy. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, with the committee saying she helped "pave the way to a human sympathy passing over widely separated racial boundaries."
She wrote more books, including non fiction, and most of the remainder of her life was taken up with various humanitarian causes, including the rights of woman, opposition to racism, and the plight of Asian war orphans.
She died in 1973.
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