Absalom Sydenstricker

Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (Chinese: 賽兆祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931.

[1][2] The Sydenstricker log house at what later became the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home.

[4] Her representation of her father was conflicted between respect for his steadfastness, and bitterness for his treatment of her mother.

The tale was told as simply as the sun rises out of the dawn, marches swiftly across the firmament, to set in its own glory.

The names of the family members appear in quotes as they are given in the books The Exile and Fighting Angel.