Pearl S. Buck

American writer (1892–1973).

Born June 26th, 1892 in Hillsboro. [ref]

Died March 6th, 1973 at 80 years old in Danby (lung cancer). [ref]

Occupations
autobiographer, children's writer, human rights activist, journalist, missionary, novelist, prosaist, screenwriter, translator, writer
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde