Pearl S. Buck __________ in 1892 in West Virginia.

When Pearl __________

five months old, the family __________ to China, where her parents __________
as missionaries. They __________ among the Chinese people, and Pearl
__________ with Chinese children. She listened to their ideas and __________
about their culture. From an early age, she __________ both Chinese and
English. Buck said that she __________ in two worlds: the "small, white, clean
Presbyterian world of my parents", and the "big, loving merry not-too-clean
Chinese world".

From 1899 to 1901, there __________ a big anti-foreign, anti-Christian

movement in China called the Boxer Uprising. This greatly __________ Pearl’s
family; their Chinese friends abandoned them, and Western visitors stopped
coming. A few years later, Pearl __________ to an English school. She
__________ the racist attitudes of the other students against Chinese people.
Both of her parents __________ that Chinese people __________ their equals.
Pearl was then educated at home. She __________ English from her mother,
the local dialect from her Chinese playmates, and traditional Chinese writings
and history from a Chinese scholar.

Pearl __________ to college in the U.S. and then __________ to China. In

China, she __________ married and __________ to live in a small, poor village
in the north of China. Her first child, a girl named Carol, __________ in 1920.
Carol __________ an unusual disease, and she __________ trouble learning.
Pearl __________ a lot of money to pay for her daughter’s care, so she
__________ writing books about China.

Many people __________ Pearl Buck’s second book, “The Good Earth”. It
__________ the story about peasant life in China. In 1931, “The Good Earth”
__________ a top seller in the United States and __________ the Pulitzer Prize.
That __________ a time when most people knew almost nothing about the
Chinese way of life, so they __________ a lot from Pearl’s books. She
__________ with honesty and showed her readers that the Chinese people
__________ very different from the way they were seen in Hollywood movies.

After almost forty years in China, Pearl __________ back to the United States.
She __________ articles for newspapers and magazines about war, politics,
religion, equal rights for minorities and women, and many other subjects. Even
though her ideas often brought criticism, Pearl __________ writing. She
__________ that there would be world peace only when all races __________
respect for each other. When Pearl Buck spoke to young people, she
__________ them that they needed to learn more about people around the
world.

In addition to writing, Pearl Buck __________ to help disadvantaged people,

particularly Asian Americans. In 1949, she __________ the Welcome House
Adoption Agency to __________ the adoption of Asian-American children who
__________ families. Pearl and her second husband __________ seven
children, and they cared for many others. In 1964, she started the Pearl S. Buck
Foundation to work against poverty and discrimination faced by children in
Asian countries.

Pearl Buck __________ in 1973 at age 80 from lung cancer. She __________
more than one hundred books plus short stories, poetry, plays, essays and
children’s literature, but most people __________ her for her novels about China.