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American Prize Good Earth Life Pearl Buck Fiction

Front Pearl Buck
Back 1892-1973
American novelist
many of her works of fiction are set in China, including the Good earth 1931, probably her best, and won Pulitzer prize for it in 1932
an epic story about a peasant's relationship with the soil,
in 1938 he became the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature
Good earth is the first in a trilogy called the house of earth , of which the others are Sons (1932) and a house divided 1935
her first novel about Chinese life was east wind, west wind 1930.
subsequent novels about China include the Mother 1934, this proud heart 1938, dragon speed 1941, kinfolk 1949

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; Chinese: 賽珍珠) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces".[1] She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

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