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
Janet Laurence (author) Janet Laurence (author) Janet Laurence, (born 1937 as Janet Duffell), also known by her pen name Julia Lisle, is a British author and cookery writer. From 1978, Laurence began to write cookery articles for "Country Life" and "The Daily Telegraph". Eventually she became the sole author of the Telegraphs weekly 'Bon Viveur' column. She also wrote a series of articles in Country Life about historical cooking. She has written or co-written eight cookery books, notably books about Scandinavian cooking. Laurence's first crime novel, 'A Deepe Coffyn', was published in 1989, the first of ten contemporary novels featuring cookery writer Darina