- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist
| Born: | 26 June 1892 Comment | | How old is Pearl S. Buck in 2024? / Age: | 131 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
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Pearl S. Buck facts
- 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"
- She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
- After returning to the United States in 1935, she continued writing prolifically and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption
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