Pearl S. Buck

Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood films, including _The Good Earth (1937)_ (qv) and _Dragon Seed (1944)_ (qv). She also wrote novels using the pen-name 'John Sedges', and she won the 'Nobel Prize' for Literature in 1938.::Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>