USA / China: Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, writer, Sinophile, Orientalist and Feminist (1892-1973). Wet plate collodion photograph, Arnold Genthe, 1932

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhju (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China.

Her novel 'The Good Earth' was the best-selling fiction book in the USA in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 'for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces'.

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Arnold Genthe

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