Pearl S. Buck

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. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. From Wikipedia.

Known For

Birth Location Hillsboro, West Virginia, USA
Born 1892-06-25
Died 1973-03-06

Movies

2001
The Gift Original Story
1977
1962
The Big Wave Executive Producer
1961
The Big Wave Novel
1961
China Sky Novel
1945
Dragon Seed Novel
1944
1937