She dealt with many topics including women, emotions (in general), Asians, immigration, adoption, and conflicts that many people go through in life. She wanted to prove to her readers that universality of mankind can exist if they accept it. Many of her life experiences are related to or in her books. She wrote novels, short stories, fiction, and children's stories. Buck would write over 100 works of literature, her most known being The Good Earth. In 1938 she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, after writing biographies of her parents, The Fighting Angel. Walsh, president of the John Day Publishing Company, on June 11, 1935, and adopt six other children. She returned to the United States, and obtained a divorce from her husband. Pearl was forced to flee China in 1934 due to political tensions. Her career would keep flourishing, and she won the William Dean Howells Medal in 1935. The story of the farmer Wang Lung's life brought her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932. In 1931 she wrote her best known novel, The Good Earth, which is considered to be one of the best of her many works.
In 1926, she left China and returned to the United States for a short time in order to earn her Master of Arts degree from Cornell University.īuck began her writing career in 1930 with her first publication of East Wind:West Wind.
In 1925, adopted Janice (later surnamed Walsh) and subsequently 8 more adoptees. The small family then moved to Nanjing, where Pearl taught English literature at University of Nanking. In 1921, she and John had a daughter with phenylketonuria, Carol. She then returned to China, and married an agricultural economist, John Lossing Buck, on May 13, 1917. She was encouraged to write at an early age.īy 1910, she left for America and went to Randolph-Macon Women's College, where she would earn her degree in 1914. Kong, and then was taught English by her mother and her teacher. She was brought up there and first knew the Chinese language and customs, especially from Mr. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) (JMarch 6, 1973) was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, with her novel The Good Earth, in 1932.īorn in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline (Stulting) and Absalom Sydenstricker, Buck and her southern Presbyterian missionaries parents went to Zhejiang, China in 1895.
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