American author Pearl Buck grew up in China where her parents were missionaries. After her education in the United States of America, she returned to China and lived there from 1914 - 1934 with the exception of a year (1926) at Cornell University, New York. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published in 1930. Her second novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded several prizes including the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Medal. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Her works include biographies of her mother and father and The Time Is Now (1967), a fictionalised account of her own experiences. Her biography on the Official Website for the Nobel Prize states that 'Her novels ... deal with the confrontation of East and West'. Pearl Buck also had an interest in the welfare of children.
Source: From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
