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
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