Pearl S.Buck was a very popular American writer Of her day.She was famous for her books about China.Pearl S.Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in l938.
The writer was born in West Virginia,America.She spent almost half of her long life in China.Her youth was spent in Jiangsu Province,China.She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak English.
Her mother had traveled widely in her youth and liked literature very much.After being educated by her mother and by a Chinese teacher,Pearl S.Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen.She continued her education in the United States at a Woman’s College to study psychology.After graduating in 1914,she returned to China as a teacher.In the l920s her family moved to Nanjing.There she taught English and American literature at a university.
As a writer,Buck’s book,The Good Earth,appeared in l931 and sold quite well in its first Year.It has been translated into over thirty languages.In l938 she became the third Americ
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