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1892 - Born on June 26th in the West Virginia home of her grandmother.
1900 - Forced to flee to Shanghai during the Boxer Rebellion, where Pearl eventually attended boarding school.
1910 - Pearl returned to the United States to earn a degree at Randolph-Macon Womens College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
1914 - Pearl received her B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia. She accepted an assistantship at the college and began to teach, but soon returned to China to take care of her ill mother.
1917 - Pearl married John Lossing Buck, an agricultural missionary, in China on May 13th.
1920 - The Bucks lived in Nanking on the campus of the university where they both taught.
1921 - Pearl gave birth to a daughter, Carol, who was mentally disabled with a disease called PKU.
- A tumor found in Pearl's uterus during delivery, she underwent a hysterectomy.
1923 - Pearl published her first work, a nonfiction article for Atlantic magazine titled "In China too".
1925 - She wrote an article titled "A Chinese Woman Speaks".
1926 - She received an M.A. in English from Cornell University and returned to China.
1930 - She wrote her first novel East Wind, West Wind, published by the John Day Company.
1935 - After her divorce from John Lossing Buck, Pearl married Richard Walsh, president of the John Day publishing firm, on June 11th.
1938 - She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth and became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1973 - She died of lung cancer at her second home in Danby, Vermont on March 6th.
- Charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
1900 - Forced to flee to Shanghai during the Boxer Rebellion, where Pearl eventually attended boarding school.
1910 - Pearl returned to the United States to earn a degree at Randolph-Macon Womens College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
1914 - Pearl received her B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia. She accepted an assistantship at the college and began to teach, but soon returned to China to take care of her ill mother.
1917 - Pearl married John Lossing Buck, an agricultural missionary, in China on May 13th.
1920 - The Bucks lived in Nanking on the campus of the university where they both taught.
1921 - Pearl gave birth to a daughter, Carol, who was mentally disabled with a disease called PKU.
- A tumor found in Pearl's uterus during delivery, she underwent a hysterectomy.
1923 - Pearl published her first work, a nonfiction article for Atlantic magazine titled "In China too".
1925 - She wrote an article titled "A Chinese Woman Speaks".
1926 - She received an M.A. in English from Cornell University and returned to China.
1930 - She wrote her first novel East Wind, West Wind, published by the John Day Company.
1935 - After her divorce from John Lossing Buck, Pearl married Richard Walsh, president of the John Day publishing firm, on June 11th.
1938 - She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth and became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1973 - She died of lung cancer at her second home in Danby, Vermont on March 6th.
- Charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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