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Pearl Buck

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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (English: Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck, June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973), also known as Pearl Buck, was an American writer living in China. She was famous for her novel "The Good Earth" (The Good Earth). Earth), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and later the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize, and the American writer whose works have been published in the most languages.

Category
Writers
Nationality
United States
Born
1892-06-26
Died
1973-03-06
Wikidata
Q80900
Occupations translatornovelistautobiographerhuman rights activistscreenwriterjournalistchildren's literature writerwritermissionaryessayistteacher
Aliases Birl BakChen-chu SaiJohn SedgesParla BakaPearl BuckPearl Comfort SydenstrickerPearl Comfort Sydenstricker BuckPearl S. BuckPearl SydenstrickerPearl Sydenstricker BuckPearl Sydenstricker Buck WalshPerl BakPirl BakPearl Me. PakPearl BuckPearl S. BuckPŭrl BŭkPʻŏl S. BŏkSai ZhenzhuZhenzhu SaiPark Jin-jooPearl Seidenstrike BookerPearl BuckPearl Buck

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