Pearl Buck, b. 1892. She was born in West Virginia, but since her parents were only on furlough from the mission field in China, Pearl grew up and lived much of her life in China. She was homeschooled by her mother and by a Chinese tutor. After the publication of her second novel, The Good Earth, Pearl Buck won both the Pulitzer Prize and, ten years later, the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was able to have only one natural child, a daughter, Carol, who was mentally handicapped as a result of PKU. Mrs. Buck adopted seven more children.
Charlotte Zolotow, b. 1915. Charlotte Zolotow celebrates her 90th birthday this year. She’s written over 90 books for children and edited many more. Here are a few of our favorites:
Have you read her book about her child with a disability, The Child Who Never Grew? She put her daughter into an institution at around age nine, I think.