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Pearl S. Buck

PEARL S. BUCK (1892–1973) was born in West Virginia but spent most of her childhood and much of her adulthood in China. In 1932, Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, The Good Earth. In 1938 she was the first American woman to be honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Good Earth

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The Good Earth

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