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. tn O zee d a * “-* Background * . Richard J. Walsh, president ef the Jehan Day Publishing Company, New York ".. Gity. She was born Pearl Sydenstriker at Hillsboro, West Virginia, on June 28, ‘3892. She graduated with an A.B. degree from Randolph-Macen Women’s College in 1914. Mrs. Buck also received an M.A. degree from Yale in 1933, _- a Doctor of Literature degree from West Virgiaia University in 1959, aad LL.D . degrees from Howard University, Washington, D. C., and the St. Lawrence. Po . . | She married John Lossing Buck en May 15, 1917, and has twe children - " ‘by this marriage, Carol and Janice. She later divorced Mr. Buck and on June li, . 1935, married Richard J. Walsh. Bhortly after her marriage te Mr. Walsh, she adopted Richard and John Stulting, Edgar Sydenstriker and Jean Comfort. Se .» Pearl &. Buck was employed as 4 teacher at the University of Nanking | and Southeastera University, Nanking, China, between 1921 and 1931. She also — _ taught during this period at Chung Yong University, Nanking, China. In recogai- _ tion of her work in the literary fleld, Mrs. Buck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, the William Dean Howell medal in 1935, and the Nobel Award in ‘Literature in 1938. She has been president of the East-West Association since . 4941, is a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the Kappa Delta Sorority, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Cosmopolitan Club of New York City. a (ste Daily Worker for Janaary 6, 1937, stated that Anna Louise Strong, '. @ reported member of the Communist Party, was on her wey to the United States jafter having visited the Bpanish battiefrents and that upon her arrival she was .. $m Spain. This article stated that Pearl. S. Buck wes te be among the speakers Worker stated, on January 12,1937; “The eccasion will bring together maay of the early travelers to the Soviet Government of two decades ago.” . v1 ALLYWFORMATION CONTAINER” ( a wor é it (ies osuri Ca /Ol LEG IAS - PEE FO