1. Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 1892 - 1973. Pearl Buck was born in the hills of West Virginia to the parents of Chinese missionaries. ... Pearl Buck had been writing since the age of six. ... (141) She also opened the Pearl S. ... Her 1931 novel, The Good Earth became the best-selling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal in 1935, and adopted as a major MGM film in 1937. ...
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