American · b. 1892
Pearl S. Buck was an American writer and Nobel laureate best known for The Good Earth, her epic novel of Chinese peasant life that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Pearl S. Buck spent much of her early life in China as the daughter of missionaries, and that deep familiarity with Chinese life and culture infused her most famous work.
The Good Earth (1931), the saga of the farmer Wang Lung and his rise from poverty, won the Pulitzer Prize and introduced millions of Western readers to rural Chinese life. In 1938 she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She wrote prolifically and was also a noted humanitarian and advocate for adoption and civil rights.
Buck is remembered for bridging cultures through her fiction and for the enduring power of The Good Earth.
by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize–winning epic follows Wang Lung, a poor Chinese farmer, from his wedding day through poverty, famine, and hard-won wealth, tracing the rise and moral cost of a family bound to the land across a time of vast upheaval.
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