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About Pearl S. Buck
American writer and humanitarian
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. Born in 1892 and active in the 20th century, she is best known for the novel The Good Earth and for becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and earned Buck the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. The Nobel committee cited her rich, epic portrayals of peasant life in China and her memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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Books by Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
1960
Peony
1997
Pavilion of Women
1968
The Mother
2012
The Big Wave
1986