Pearl S. Buck papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Pearl Buck papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
.84 Linear Feet 2 Full Hollinger Boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Pearl Buck papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains 34 typed manuscripts for short stories, reviews, speeches, letters, and plays by Pearl Buck. The collection also contains letters and one other document signed by Buck. The collection also contains a photocopy of an interview with Buck dating from 1964.

Biographical / historical:

Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was an American writer. She was noted for writing The Good Earth. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Buck was also noted for her activism, advocating for racial equality and women's rights.

Buck was born to Caroline Maude and Absalom Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Buck spent much of her childhood in China, where her parents worked as missionaries. Buck attended school in Shanghai and was raised in a bilingual environment. Buck attended Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, VA from 1911 to 1914. In 1914 she returned to China. Buck lived in Japan during 1927. Much of her written work drew from her experinces living in China and Japan.

Acquisition information:

Purchased with the Molly Elliot Seawell Endowment.

These papers were previously part of the Steve Forbes Collection.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard