Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, who later became known as Pearl S. Buck after she married, was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She went on to live most of her life in China where she grew up seeing the hardships the country faced. A lot of Buck's novels, stories, poetry, drama, and children's literature were based on China and what she learned from living there. Her writings became very popular and she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
In June of 1892, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker gave birth to Pearl in West Virginia. …
