Pearl S. Buck - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1938
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Pearl S. Buck

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1938
for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
Standard Chinese, English, Mandarin
date of birth
6/26/1892
place of birth
Hillsboro
date of death
3/6/1973
place of death
Danby
Lived
80 years

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employer
  • Nanjing University
educated at
  • Cornell University
  • Randolph–Macon College
occupation
  • writer
  • missionary
  • journalist
  • children's writer
  • novelist
  • autobiographer
  • human rights defender
  • screenwriter
  • translator
  • prose writer
  • teacher
field of work
  • English-language literature
  • Chinese culture
notable work
  • The Good Earth
  • Peony
  • A House Divided
  • The Exile
  • Sons
  • Imperial Woman
  • East Wind: West Wind
  • The Living Reed
  • Fighting Angel
  • The Big Wave
  • Dragon Seed
  • China Sky
  • Letter from Peking
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society
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