A new historic marker in Ithaca commemorates author Pearl S. Buck’s pivotal time at Cornell in 1924, according to Cornell Chronicle. Buck, who later won the Pulitzer Prize and became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, studied at Cornell while her husband pursued agricultural economics.
The marker, funded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, recognizes Buck’s role in introducing Chinese culture to Western readers through works like The Good Earth. Professor Thomas J. Campanella led the initiative to honor her legacy and the significance of the local community in her early career.
The public unveiling of the marker, located near her first Ithaca home on Forest Home Drive, takes place Dec. 8.
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