Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (ten khai sinh: Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; ten khac Trai Tran Chau tieng Trung: 赛珍珠; 26 thang 5 nam 1892 – 6 thang 3 nam 1973) la nu nha van My đoat giai Pulitzer cho tac pham hu cau (quyen The Good Earth) nam 1932 va giai Nobel Van hoc nam 1938.


Tieu su Pearl Buck sinh o Hillsboro, West Virginia, la con mot nha truyen giao nguoi My. Sau khi ra đoi chua đay 5 thang, ba đa đuoc cha me đua sang Trung Quoc sinh song. Tu nho va suot ca cuoc đoi ba yeu men va thich tim hieu cuoc song cua nguoi dan Trung Quoc. Nam 15 tuoi, ba đuoc gui tro hoc tai mot truong day Anh van o Thuong Hai. Nam 17 tuoi, cha me cho Pearl Buck ve My, hoc tai truong Đai hoc Randolph Macon (tieu bang Virginia). Nam 1917 ba ket hon voi mot muc su va theo chong đi truyen giao tai mien Bac Trung Hoa. Tu nam 1922, ba day o Đai hoc Nam Kinh va Kim Lang.
Nam 1925, Pearl Buck bat đau viet cuon tieu thuyet đau tien East Wind:West Wind (Gio Đong, gio Tay). Sau đo hang loat tieu thuyet noi tieng khac ve đe tai Trung Quoc ra đoi, nhu The Good Earth (Đat lanh), Sons (Nhung nguoi con trai), A House Divided (Mot nha chia re), The Mother (Nguoi me), The Child Who Never Grew (Đua tre khong bao gio lon)... trong đo tieu thuyet The Good Earth đuoc nhan giai Pulitzer nam 1931. Nam 1933, ba đuoc Đai hoc Yale tang bang Cu nhan Van chuong Danh du. Nam 1938, ba đuoc Đai hoc West Virginia va Đai hoc St. Lawrence trao tang bang Tien si Van chuong Danh du. Nam 1938 Pearl Buck nhan giai Nobel vi cac tac pham mo ta đoi song nong thon Trung Hoa mot cach phong phu va xac thuc. Sau khi nhan giai, Pearl Buck tiep tuc sang tac rat nhieu, ngoai van xuoi ba con viet kich, kich ban phim, tieu luan va sach cho thieu nhi. Ba cung la nguoi đa dich Thuy Hu (All men are brothers) va mot so tac pham van hoc Trung Quoc sang tieng Anh.
Trong Chien tranh the gioi thu hai, Pearl Buck viet nhieu sach bao chinh luan chong chu nghia phat xit. Trong thap nien 1950, ba xuat ban mot so tac pham ve đe tai gia đinh va xa hoi My, ky but danh I. Sedge. Nam 1951, Pearl Buck đuoc bau lam thanh vien Vien Han lam Nghe thuat va Van hoc Hoa Ky. Nam 1955, ba li di chong va tai gia voi giam đoc mot hang quang cao. Cuoi đoi, ba quan tam đen đe tai cac nha bac hoc nguyen tu buoc phai che tao vu khi giet nguoi hang loat. Đong thoi, ba tich cuc tham gia cac hoat đong tu thien, xa hoi nhu: sang lap ra to chuc khong vu loi Hiep hoi Đong Tay (The East and West Association, 1941) nham truyen ba nhung hieu biet giua cac dan toc tren the gioi; cung chong lap nen to chuc Can nha tinh nghia (Welcome Home, 1949) giup tre mo coi; lap ra Quy Pearl S. Buck (The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, 1963) va tang cho quy nay 7 trieu đo la. Ba mat nam 1973 tai Danby, Vermont (My).


Tac pham East Wind:West Wind (Gio Đong, gio Tay, 1930), tieu thuyet
The Good Earth (Đat lanh, 1931), tieu thuyet
Sons (Nhung nguoi con trai, 1932), tieu thuyet
The First Wife and Other Stories (Vo ca va nhung cau chuyen khac, 1933), tieu thuyet
All Men Are Brothers (Moi nguoi la anh em, 1933), ban dich tieu thuyet Thuy Hu
The Mother (Nguoi me, 1934), tieu thuyet
A House Divided (Mot nha chia re, 1935), tieu thuyet
A Home of Earth (Nha tranh vach đat, 1935), tieu thuyet
The Exile (Luu đay, 1936), tu truyen
Fighting Angel (Thien than chien đau, 1936), tu truyen
This Proud Heart (Trai tim kieu hanh, 1938), tieu thuyet
Flight into China (Bay vao Trung Hoa, 1939), kich
The Patriot (Nguoi yeu nuoc, 1939), tieu thuyet
Other Gods (Nhung than minh khac, 1940), tieu thuyet
Dragon Seed (Hat giong cua rong, 1942), tieu thuyet
The Spirit and The Flesh (Tinh than va the xac, 1944), tu truyen
The Dragon Fish (Ca hoa rong, 1944), tieu thuyet
Portrait of a Marriage (Chan dung mot cuoc hon nhan, 1945), tieu thuyet
Talk about Russia (Cau chuyen ve nuoc Nga, 1945), tieu luan
Pavilion of Women (Gian rieng cua phu nu, 1946), tieu thuyet
Poeny (Mau đon, 1948), tieu thuyet
Kinsfolk (Tinh ruot thit, 1949), tieu thuyet
The Angry Wife (Nguoi vo gian du, 1949), tieu thuyet
The Child Who Never Grew (Đua tre khong bao gio lon, 1950), tieu thuyet
The Hidden Flower (Canh hoa e ap, 1952), tieu thuyet
My serveral worlds (The gioi cua rieng toi, 1954), tu truyen
Imperial Woman (Nguoi cung nu, 1956), tieu thuyet
Letter from Peking (La thu tu Bac Kinh, 1957), tieu thuyet
Voices in the House (Tieng noi trong nha, 1958), tieu thuyet
The Townsman (Nguoi thanh pho, duoi ten John Sedges, 1958), tieu thuyet
The Long Love (Tinh yeu lau dai, 1958), tieu thuyet
A Desert Incident (Mot su kien o sa mac, 1959), kich
Command the Morning (Ra lenh cho buoi sang, 1959), tieu luan
Santan Never Sleeps (Satan khong bao gio ngu, 1962), truyen phim
Fairy Tales of the Orient (Đong phuong huyen bi qua truyen co than tien, 1965), truyen thieu nhi
Time is now (Bay gio la thoi điem, 1967), tieu thuyet
The New Year (Nam moi, 1968), tieu thuyet
The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (Ba nguoi con gai cua Luong phu nhan, 1969), tieu thuyet
The Promise (Hua hen, 1943), tieu thuyet
Water Buffalo Children (Muc đong, 1943), truyen thieu nhi
One Bright Day (Mot ngay đep troi, 1950), truyen thieu nhi
The Christmas Ghost (Con ma đem Noel, 1966), truyen thieu nhi
The Kennedy Women (Nhung nguoi đan ba trong gia đinh Kennedy, 1970)
The Story Bible (Chuyen Kinh Thanh, 1971)


Tham khao Lien ket ngoai Pearl S. Buck International Website Luu tru ngay 28 thang 9 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine
Pearl S. Buck International Website
University of Pennsylvania website dedicated to Pearl S. Buck
Brief biography at the official Nobel Prize website
Brief biography
Brief biography at Kirjasto (Pegasos) Luu tru ngay 24 thang 5 nam 2008 tai Wayback Machine
Buck at IMDb
National Trust for Historic Preservation on the Pearl S. Buck House Restoration Luu tru ngay 3 thang 3 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine