Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973) was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, but raised in Zhenjiang, China, where her Presbyterian missionary parents had settled. She grew up bilingual in English and Chinese, absorbing the culture and landscape that would define her literary career. After studying at Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Cornell University, she returned to China, where she taught and began writing. The Good Earth, published in 1931, became an immediate bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Good Earth.