'As I reflect on the unfortunate escalation of racial divisiveness in our country, I also remember Pearl S. Buck, a white Christian woman who...became a champion for Asians, Black people, and women,' writes physician Raman L. Mitra.
, who stated after her Nobel win that “If she can get it, anyone can.” It is tempting to speculate whether jealousy, elitism, or misogyny factored into his disparaging comment, given the norms of those times.
What struck me while taking a guided tour of her house — she lived there from 1934 to 1969 — was her collection of books. There were two large libraries in this renovated 1825 farmhouse, with volumes of Dickens , Eastern and Western political thought, modern and ancient history, along with medical and science monographs. The entire works of Balzac were in her bedroom. I recalled a
attributed to Oscar Wilde : “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”First American Woman Nobel LiteratureShe is hardly to be found in any searches about Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month despite her bold efforts to condemn the heinous internment of
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