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
Mourning Dove (author) Mourning Dove (author) Mourning Dove or Christine Quintasket (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes) was a Native American author in the United States best known for her 1927 novel "Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range" and her 1933 work "Coyote Stories". "Cogewea" was one of the first novels to be written by a Native American woman and to feature a female protagonist. "Cogewea" explores the lives of Cogewea, a mixed-blood hero whose ranching skills, riding prowess, and bravery are noted and greatly respected by (the primarily mixed-race) cowboys on the ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The