Pearl S' Buck

1
Pearl S. Buck

• A West Virginia Native

2
The Birthplace

• Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was born on June
  26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.

3
Little Levels

• Pearl S. Bucks first home was located among the
  beautiful hills of Little Levels in Pocahontas
  County.

4
Family Heritage

• Pearl was the most distinguished descendant of
  two families the Stulting and Sydenstricker
  families.

5
The Stulting House

• This house was built by the Stulting family who
  emigrated from Holland to America in 1847 and who
  lived here on a sixteen acre farm.

6
The Sydenstricker Home

• This structure was the birthplace of Pearls
  father. It was dismantled and transported 40
  miles from Greenbrier County and reconstructed
  here. It is used as a cultural center and museum
  on the farm complex.

7
The Stulting Barn

• This grand old structure was restored in 1977 and
  contains farm equipment of the 1892 period.

8
Chinese Heritage

• Pearls parents were Presbyterian missionaries.
  When Pearl was three months old, her parents took
  her to China. By the time she was four, she
  could speak and write Chinese as well as English.
  

9
Education

• Pearl received her formal education at
  Randolph-Macon Womens College in Lynchburg,
  Virginia. In 1917 she married Lossing Buck, a
  Cornell graduate working in China.

10
Prize Winning Author

• Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to
  receive both the Pulitzer Prize for The Good
  Earth and the Nobel Prize.

11
Official U.S. Postage Stamp

• On June 24, 1983, The Pearl Buck U.S. Postage
  Stamp was issued at Hillsboro as a tribute to
  this great author.

12
Legacy

• Eventually, Pearl moved to Danby, Vermont, where
  she died in 1973 at the age of eighty. She left
  a legacy far larger than her classic novel, The
  Good Earth.

13
Green Hills Farm

• Pearl S. Buck is buried as she had instructed, at
  Green Hills Farm, beneath a large ash tree. Her
  stone, which she designed, records her name in
  Chinese characters representing the name Pearl
  Sydenstricker.