Pearl Buck

Pearl Buck was born in 1892 in West Virginia to Presbyterian missionaries and was taken to China as an infant. She spent most of her first forty years there, spoke Chinese before English and studied with a Chinese scholar; during the Nanking incident of 1927, she escaped the violence by hiding. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, the first American woman to receive it, she translated a great classic Chinese novel, adopted several children and in 1949 founded a children's home that became an adoption agency. She died in Vermont in 1973.

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• NovelThe Good EarthPearl Buck · 1931Literature