Biographies: Pearl S. Buck - Writer

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American writer, novelist, and Nobel-Prize laureate, who was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, USA, as Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker. She traveled with her parents, who were Christian missionaries, to China, and she remained in China for many years during which she learned the Chinese language and customs and understood the Chinese people, which made her writings an attempt to bridge the gap between China and the United States. She grew up in the city of Zhenjiang. She then returned to America to enroll in university, where she graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1914. She later returned to China and started writing her novel "East Wind: West Wind." She began writing her novel while on her way back from China to the United States in 1925. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She died on March 6, 1973 (aged 80) in Danby, Vermont, USA. Her credits include The Big Wave (1961) and The Good Earth (1937).

• 1 March 2022
• Christina Aziz