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
Katherine Neville (author) Katherine Neville (author) Katherine Neville (born April 4, 1945) is an American author who writes adventure novels. Her novels include "The Eight" (1988), "A Calculated Risk" (1992), "The Magic Circle" (1998) and "The Fire" (2008), which is a sequel to "The Eight". Katherine Neville was born in St. Louis, Missouri. After college, she moved to New York City and began a career in the computer field. In the 1970s, Neville was an international consultant to the Algerian government, and in the late 1970s, she went to work at the Department of Energy's nuclear research site in Idaho. In between jobs