pearl s. buck be a brilliant author that be a first american lady win nobel prize in literature in 1938 and receive her prize with enrico fermi an italian physit . she write this romance in 1931 which be a second one after her first novel ( east wind and west wind ) in 1930 and her beginning in literature be fantastic upon her premier novel . she win in 1935 ( pulitzer prize ) in literature on her eternal novel ( the good earth ) which make a brilliant panorama on the life of chinese peasant ( wung lung ) and his wife ( o lane ) and their effort to face the hardness of hard position in their earth to reach for their big fortune by their shoulder . paul muni succeed in this role a chinese peasant that he prepare himself in this role upon his sitting with chinese people in san francisco in their town to be chinese exactly a a real and true . shara reiner succeed in her role a ( o lane ) by this brilliant evidence that she win an academy award a a best actress in 1937 .