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
Bu Feiyan Yong, and the adoration generated a sense of responsibility in her to surpass the orthodox "Wuxia" novels. Bu Feiyan "This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xin." Xin Xiaojuan ( born 11 July 1981), whose pen name Bu Feiyan (步非烟) is taken from a "Tangchuanqi" (short stories of the Tang dynasty) by Huangfu Mei, is a Chinese female writer known for her "wuxia" novels. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, she studied at the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1999, awarded with a master's degree in ancient Chinese literature in 2006 and a Doctor's degree from the Chinese