The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes "Sons" (1932) and "A House Divided" (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and
David Bell (author) is the author of eight novels: He is also the co-editor of an anthology of short fiction: David Bell (author) David J. Bell (born November 17, 1969) is an American author and college professor whose most recent novel, "Somebody I Used to Know", was released from New American Library, a member of Penguin Group USA in 2015. David Jack Bell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended St. Catharine of Siena grade school and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1988. Bell earned his B.A. from Indiana University Bloomington, his M.A. in creative writing from Miami University of