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Pearl S. Buck

1892 - 1973

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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pearl S. Buck is the 214th most popular writer (up from 292nd in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from United States (up from 254th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Writer.

Pearl S. Buck was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, and essays. She is most famous for her novel The Good Earth.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pearl S. Buck ranks 214 out of 7,302Before her are Svetlana Alexievich, Terry Pratchett, Terence, Frédéric Mistral, Karel Čapek, and Carlo Goldoni. After her are George Sand, Roger Martin du Gard, Janusz Korczak, Constantine VII, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Torquato Tasso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Pearl S. Buck ranks 11Before her are Edward Victor Appleton, Louis de Broglie, Mary Pickford, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma. After her are Manfred von Richthofen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Alexander Alekhine, Amanullah Khan, and Sepp Dietrich. Among people deceased in 1973, Pearl S. Buck ranks 10Before her are Pablo Neruda, David Ben-Gurion, Salvador Allende, Erich von Manstein, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, and Lyndon B. Johnson. After her are Fulgencio Batista, W. H. Auden, Walter Ulbricht, İsmet İnönü, J. Hans D. Jensen, and Ivan Konev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pearl S. Buck ranks 209 out of 20,380Before her are Henry Fonda (1905), Noah Webster (1758), Denzel Washington (1954), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), James Monroe (1758), and Robert Redford (1936). After her are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1954), Mariah Carey (1969), Jon Voight (1938), David Hasselhoff (1952), and Kevin Costner (1955).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Pearl S. Buck ranks 22Before her are Dr. Seuss (1904), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), William Faulkner (1897), John Steinbeck (1902), and David Woodard (1964). After her are Ray Bradbury (1920), J. D. Salinger (1919), Truman Capote (1924), Joseph Heller (1923), Dale Carnegie (1888), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803).