Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck (born in 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was a writer and professor of English literature. The daughter of a missionary, she spent most of her life in China but studied in the United States. From 1922 to 1932, she taught English literature in Nanjing. Her novel *The Good Earth* received the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.