Buck, Pearl S(ydenstricker) (1892–1973)

US novelist. Daughter of missionaries to China, she spent much of her life there and wrote novels about Chinese life, such as East Wind–West Wind (1930) and The Good Earth (1931), for which she received a Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

She wanted to make the East understandable to the West.

Although censured by the Chinese communist government during her lifetime, in 2002 Buck's descendants were invited to the city of Zhenjiang, where she lived and taught, for an official three-day celebration marking the 110th anniversary of her birth.