Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; additionally known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; Chinese: 賽珍珠) was an American author and writer.
As the little girl of preachers, Buck spent the greater part of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China.
Her novel The Good Earth was the top of the line fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was granted the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and genuinely epic portrayals of worker life in China and for her anecdotal artful culminations".
She was the main American lady to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
In the wake of coming back to the United States in 1935, she kept composition productively,
turned into a conspicuous supporter of the privileges of ladies and minority gatherings,
and composed generally on Asian societies, ending up especially surely understood for her endeavors for Asian and blended race appropriation.
