The Pearl S. Buck Living Gateway Conference

To commemorate the legacy of West Virginia Pulitzer winner Pearl S. Buck, this event is an international conference on Buck, winner of a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Good Earth. West Virginia University, repository of the Buck manuscript collection, will host the conference on September 11-13, 2016 at the Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown, W.Va. The conference will include a keynote address by Dr. Kang Liao, author of Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Bridge Across the Pacific, and professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Calif. and a presentation by Keven Ann Willey, vice president and editorial page editor for the Dallas Morning News and co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board. A total of twenty-eight sessions will be presented at the conference on a range of topics plus tours of the Buck birthplace located in Hillsboro, W.Va, and the manuscript collection will be available. For the complete schedule, presenters, registration and lodging information please visit the conference website at http://pearlsbuckconference.wvu.edu.

The conference is a partnership of the West Virginia Humanities Council, West Virginia University, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation.