| − | '''Pearl S. Buck''' (born Pearl Sydenstricker, June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China; she learned Chinese before English but won the 1938 [[Nobel Prize]] in literature for her English novels. Her novel ''The Good Earth'' (1931), about the travails and triumphs of Chinese peasants, won the Pulitzer Prize and became a worldwide best-seller and the basis of a popular film. Her writing is simple and vivid, full of telling details and minute observations that bring her subjects to life. She published ninety books, many of them best-sellers, fifteen of them Book-of-the-Month Club selections. She wrote novels, short stories, plays, translations (from the Chinese), biography, autobiography, children's literature, essays, and poetry. Her work was translated into 145 different languages and dialects. She was a strong opponent of [[abortion]] who wrote the essay “Every Life is a Gift,” as the forward to Robert E. Cooke’s 1968 book, ''Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma''. | + | '''Pearl S. Buck''' (born Pearl Sydenstricker, June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China; she learned Chinese before English but won the 1938 [[Nobel Prize]] in literature for her English novels. Her novel ''The Good Earth'' (1931), about the travails and triumphs of Chinese peasants, won the Pulitzer Prize and became a worldwide best-seller and the basis of a popular film. Her writing is simple and vivid, full of telling details and minute observations that bring her subjects to life. She published ninety books, many of them best-sellers, fifteen of them Book-of-the-Month Club selections. She wrote novels, short stories, plays, translations (from the Chinese), biography, autobiography, children's literature, essays, and poetry. Her work was translated into 145 different languages and dialects. She was a strong opponent of [[abortion]] who wrote the essay “Every Life is a Gift,” as the forward to Robert E. Cooke’s book ''Terrible Choice: The Abortion Dilemma'' (1968). |