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Pearl S. Buck International
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A National Historic Landmark, the site interprets the life and work of Buck, a writer, advokat, and humanitarian, and the first woman to receive both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for literature. Buck founded the Welcome House Adoption Agency in , and in founded the Pearl S. Buck Foundation as a child sponsorship organization to help children in their own countries with health, education, and job training. Both initiatives are still functioning today, beneath the umbrella of Pearl S. Buck International.
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Pearl S. Buck International is a non-profit organization with three distinct functions that operate as one with the common mission of continuing the legacy and dreams of Pearl S. Buck and her commitment to improving the quality of life and expanding opportunities for children and promoting an understanding of the values and attributes of other cultures, the injustice of prejudice, and the need for humanitarianism throughout the world.
Pearl S. Buck International is the umbrella organization under which Welcome House’s international adoption programs, Opportunity House’s child sponsorship programs, and the Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark operate.
Welcome House® was founded by Ms. Buck in as the first international, inter-racial adoption agency in the United States. Later, in , the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (now called Opportunity House) was established to address the issues of poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian co
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Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck speaking informally with Wilson students in
Pearl S. Buck surrounded by eager students.
Pearl S. Buck was a notable humanitarian, author, and social activist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature and tireless advocate for the adoption of Asian and mixed race children, her legacy lives on today.
Buck was born in West Virginia, but was raised in China by her parents who served as missionaries there. She was bilingual, and after attending college in the United States, she returned to China to work.
Her first novel, one of 70 books she would later publish, was released in Arguably her most famous work, Good Earth followed in Most of her works, these included, focus on every-day life in China, and offer readers glimpses of Chinese tradition and modernity.
In , Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, making her the first American woman to receive this honor. In , she founded Welcome House, the first adoption agency of its kind, as i