[DOC] [TLE] Pearl S. Buck - Wikipedia [PAR] Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of 
missionaries, ... Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries, traveled to 
China soon after ... a missionary, she quickly applied to the Presbyterian Board 
when her father ... Her talk was titled Is There a Case for the Foreign Missionary? [DOC] [TLE] Pearl Buck - Teachers College Columbia University [PAR] One of the most popular American authors of her day, humanitarian, ... She 
learned to speak Chinese before she could speak English. Her parents were 
missionaries. Buck's father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was a humorless, scholarly 
man who spent ... In the 1920s the Bucks moved to Nanking, where she taught 
English and... [DOC] [TLE] Featured Author: Jean Fritz in the Classroom [PAR] The only child of missionary parents, Jean often felt lonely and misplaced in the 
country ... She also tells us a great deal about the culture of China of the 1920s. ... 
Brady's father is a minister and he and others of the family often despair of 
Brady's ... As with other books in this Meet the Author series, there are numerous 
color... [DOC] [TLE] Brief Biography of Pearl S. Buck | Department of English [PAR] Pearl's father spent months away from home, itinerating in the Chinese 
countryside in ... She was taught principally by her mother and by a Chinese tutor
, Mr. Kung. ... on the campus of Nanking University, where both had teaching 
positions. ... The tragedies and dislocations which Pearl suffered in the 1920s 
reached a... [DOC] [TLE] 4 Mission: Christianity and Agricultural Improvement, 1910s1920s [PAR] A call for "agricultural missions" sounded in the 1910s and 1920s, providing ... 
American missionaries in China had not been entirely oblivious to agricultural 
concerns. ... planted gardens at their mission stations in China, and some had 
introduced ... "Daddy" Groff, as George Weidman Groff was known to friends, 
originally... [DOC] [TLE] From Foreign Mission to Chinese Church | Christian History [PAR] Missionaries in China were hampered by pressures from home, mistakes in 
leadership, and ... Now she addressed the topic "Is There a Case for Foreign 
Missions? ... The Golden Age lasted less than two decades, until the mid-1920s. 
... education, and the first to permit enrollment of girls and to employ women 
teachers. [DOC] [TLE] 'Pearl Buck In China': A Child Across The Good Earth : NPR [PAR] Jul 1, 2010 ... In Pearl Buck in China, Hilary Spurling makes a compelling case for a 
reappraisal of Buck's fiction  transforming her from dreary "lady author" into 
woman warrior. ... S. Buck taken during the 1920s, during the time she lived in 
Nanking. ... of communism to that of her father and his missionary colleagues. [DOC] [TLE] Asia - Historical Novels [PAR] A list of historical novels set in Asia: including novels of China, Korea, Japan, ... 
Modern authors are especially interested in how Asian women lived in past ... 
Jesuit missionaries from Portugal reached Japan in the sixteenth century, but 
their ... in order to enter the afterlife, she must review her life on earth during the 
1920s. [DOC] [TLE] Thornton Wilder - Author, Playwright - Biography.com [PAR] Nov 11, 2015 ... Learn more about acclaimed writer Thornton Wilderauthor of The ... Famous 
People Born in Madison  Famous English China Inland Mission Chefoo School 
in China ... Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a ... During 
the 1920s, Thornton Wilder moved between extensively teaching,... [DOC] [TLE] A Biography of Aimee Semple McPherson | On Being [PAR] Margaret Poloma recommended to Krista that she read historian Mel Robeck's ... 
Gifted missionary, evangelist, editor, author, and founder of the International 
Church ofthe ... It was there that Aimee made a firm commitment of faith. ... 
Departing from Chicago in 1910, they left for China with a stop at Semple's home 
near... [DOC] [TLE] Watchman Nee and the House Church Movement in China | Xenos ... [PAR] She seems to have been mentally gifted, easily excelling the other students in the 
... Hudson

Question: This author's dad was a missionary in China; she was a teacher there in the 1920s
Answer: Pearl S. Buck