Friday, June 26, 2020

GREAT WRITERS : PEARL S. BUCK-1

JUNE 26 IS THE BIRTHDAY OF PEARL. S. BUCK

*Pearl Sydenstricker Buck* was an American writer and novelist. 

As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. 

Her novel *The Good Earth* was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the *Pulitzer Prize* in 1932. 

Born: 26 June 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States

Died: 6 March 1973, Danby, Vermont, United States

Movies: The Good Earth, Pavilion of Women, Dragon Seed, Satan Never Sleeps, China Sky, more

Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Nobel Prize in Literature

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