THE AUTHOR

THE AUTHOR

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, W.Va., on June 26, 1892. A daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, lived mostly in China from infancy through age 40.

She married twice, first to economist John Buck and later to her publisher, Richard Walsh.

“The Good Earth” is Buck’s most famous book. It follows the life of a peasant farmer in pre-Revolutionary China and proved riveting to Americans who knew little about the culture. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and helped earn Buck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

Source: Associated Press