Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first
Jeanne Mackin Mackin's novels have been written about by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie in The New York Review of Books, in which she described the mysteries written under the pen name of Anna Maclean as "historically accurate and entertaining". Jeanne Mackin Jeanne Mackin is an American author and a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. Her published novels include "A Lady of Good Family", "The Beautiful American", "The Sweet By and By", "Dreams of Empire", "The Queen’s War" and "The Frenchwoman". She published a trilogy of mysteries with New American Library, writing as Anna Maclean. The mysteries were also translated and