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
John Moore (American author) in English. As for his other novels, "Slay and Rescue" is available in all three languages; "The Unhandsome Prince" in Czech and Russian, and "Heroics for Beginners" in Czech and German. "Heroics for Beginners" and "Bad Prince Charlie" were also published in Poland. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a source for all listings except where noted otherwise. John Moore (American author) John F. Moore (born June 15, 1959) is an American engineer and a writer of fantasy and science fiction primarily under the short name John Moore. John Moore grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia. After high