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
Classic Chinese Novels banned for most of its existence. Despite this, many if not most scholars and writers, including Lu Xun, place it among the top Chinese novels. For critical studies specific to the individual novels, see their separate articles. Classic Chinese Novels In sinology, the Classic Chinese Novels are two sets of the four or six best-known traditional Chinese novels. The Four Classic Novels include "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the Six Classic Novels add "The Unofficial History of the Scholars" and "The Plum in the Golden Vase" to