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
Ning Cai (author) Ning Cai (author) Ning Cai (Chinese: 蔡嬣; born 16 October 1982), is a Singapore Literature Prize nominated author, who was also long listed for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize in 2016. She is also known as the Mind Magic Mistress (and recognised for her illusionist/ escapologist stage character Magic Babe Ning), and recognised by Channel News Asia as South East Asia's first professional female magician. Cai has been credited with popularising magic in Singapore. She has been lauded for her good looks in various media outlets as well as publications, both locally and overseas. In October 2014, Cai announced her