The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes "Sons" (1932) and "A House Divided" (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and
John Purcell (author) John Purcell (author) John Purcell (born 1972) is an Australian author whose novels include "The Secret Lives of Emma" (under the pseudonym Natasha Walker) published by Penguin Random House in 2012 and "The Girl on the Page", due to be published by HarperCollins Australia in October 2018. He is also the Director of Books at Booktopia (Australia's largest online bookseller) and Angus & Robertson Bookworld. John appears regularly in print, on television and at Australian writers festivals to talk about books and the publishing industry. John Purcell was born in Sydney and grew up in the wealthy lower-north-shore suburb of