Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and
much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for
Literature in 1938 «for her
rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».