![]() ![]() ![]() In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. ![]() Other novels and books of nonfiction quickly followed. This became the bestselling book of both 19, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. In this impoverished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China. They married in 1917, and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1914, and the following year, she met a young agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. ![]()
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