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) on bestseller lists across the globe. Her novel "The Eight" was voted by the Spanish journal "El País" as one of the top ten books of all time. Beth Dora Reisberg in "January Magazine" termed "The Magic Circle" a tour de force. In a review in "The Independent" of London, Barry Forshaw declared that "The Fire" was much better than "The Da Vinci Code". 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