Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck

In 1917 she married an agriculturist employed by the Presbyterian Mission Board, and in 1924 the two attended Cornell, where Buck won the Laura Messenger Prize for an essay, "China and the West." This was an omen for her future, for she was to explain China to the West again and again, from her first published work, East Wind: West Wind (1930), to the time of her death, when she was working on a novel, Red Earth, which was to tell the story of the modern descendants of Wang Lung, the protagonist of her famous novel, The Good Earth (1931).

Buck grew up in close contact with the Chinese and had no intention of ever leaving China except for periods of study, such as taking her degree at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The daughter of American missionaries who took her to China at the age of three months, Pearl S.

Born 26 June 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia died 6 March 1973, Danby, Vermontĭaughter of Absalom and Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker married John L.