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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
Jun 22, 2024 · Pearl S. Buck (born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vermont) was an American author noted for her novels of life in China. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Apr 2, 2014 · Pearl S. Buck published her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, in 1930. Her next novel, The Good Earth, earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American female Nobel...
Jun 18, 2024 · Pearl S. Buck was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author and a driving force in humanitarian causes. She was a longtime advocate of cross-cultural understanding and racial harmony as a means of achieving world peace.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Pearl Buck. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938. Born: 26 June 1892, Hillsboro, WV, USA. Died: 6 March 1973, Danby, VT, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA. Prize motivation: “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces”
Pearl S. Buck, Stephanie Reents (Contributor), Cynthia Brantley Johnson (Editor) This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family.
