Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
"Boston Transcript" One need never have lived in China or know
anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its
appeal.
"Pittsburgh Post Gazette" One of the most important and revealing
novels of our time.
"The New York Times" A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life
as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.
"Boston Transcript" One need never have lived in China or know
anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its
appeal.
"Pittsburgh Post Gazette" One of the most important and revealing
novels of our time.
"The New York Times" A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life
as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.
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