Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Pearl S. Buck, Author, Literary Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4052
Overview
Literary manuscripts of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American fiction writer and humanitarian who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. She is best known for her novels about peasant life in China. The collection includes the great majority of manuscripts comprising Buck's literary works, including her novels, non-fiction, children's books, and short stories, as well as articles and speeches, among other material. There is also material about Pearl Buck....
Dates:
circa 1923-2014; Majority of material found within circa 1923-1973
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4391
Content Description
Records of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation documenting the restoration and preservation of the Pearl Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, in Pocahontas County.Box 1 includes correspondence, reports, contractor records, and other material; 1970-1974.Box 2, addendum of 2019/11/22, includes correspondence of the executive director, certificates of gift, lists of donated property, appraisal lists, reports, and other material, ca. 1970-1985, undated....
Dates:
ca. 1970-2011, 2019, undated; Majority of material found within ca. 1970-1985
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- Amerasians 1
- Authors, American -- West Virginia 1
- Children with mental disabilities 1
- China 1
- China -- Fiction 1
- China -- In literature 1
- China -- Foreign Relations -- United States 1
- Hillsboro (W. Va.) 1
- Human rights advocacy 1
- Intercountry adoption 1
- Interracial adoption 1
- Literature and society -- China 1
- Literature and society -- United States 1
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1
- Novelists, American -- West Virginia 1
- United States -- Foreign Relations -- China 1
- United States -- Relations -- China 1
- West Virginia - Writers. 1
- Women novelists, American -- 20th century 1
- Women social reformers -- United States 1 + ∧ less
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