[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10409]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                ACKNOWLEDGING THE LIFE OF PEARL S. BUCK

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Fitzpatrick) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FITZPATRICK. This morning, Mr. Speaker, I rise to acknowledge the 
memory and the life of Pearl S. Buck, an author, humanitarian, and 
political activist who made her home in Hilltown, Bucks County on Green 
Hills Farm, where she wrote 100 books.
  During this week, the anniversary of her 121st birthday, we note that 
Pearl Buck is the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize and 
Pulitzer Prize for literature. A prolific writer, she also advocated on 
behalf of women's rights and minority groups, while her efforts for her 
care and adoption of Asian and mixed-race children are legendary. Pearl 
Buck will be remembered for her achievements as well as for her 
writing.
  And we acknowledge the renovation recently of her 19th century 
farmhouse in Bucks County, notably a national historic landmark that 
will be sustained for new generations to learn and emulate Pearl Buck's 
love for the struggling, the misunderstood, and the children.
  We honor her life and we treasure her memory.

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