( Pearl Sydenstricker Buck 1892–1973)
a US author who won the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote mainly about China, where she lived for many years as a Christian teacher. It was the subject of her best-known novel, The Good Earth , for which she received the 1932 Pulitzer Prize . Her other books include East Wind; West Wind (1930), A House Divided (1935) and Dragon Seed (1942).