However, it was The Good Earth, her passionate book about the rise and fall of a farmer named Wang Lung, that truly broke new ground. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind was written the year before The Good Earth and established her reputation. The troubles she and the country experienced during her early adult life inspired her craft, beginning with the publication of essays and short stories in the "Nation" and "Atlantic Monthly" during the 1920s. Like her character Wang Lung in The Good Earth, Pearl was a survivor. Pearl and her family lived through some of the most tumultuous uprisings and political turmoil in Chinese history. Shortly after Pearl graduated, her mother's grave illness took Pearl back to China, where she met and married the first of her two husbands. By the time she returned to the United States to attend college at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia, she was not only steeped in Chinese culture but in love with it. But every afternoon, Pearl learned to read and write Chinese, spending hours mastering Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist proverbs and principles. Her mother taught her American history her father read her Bible verses. Shortly after her birth, the family returned to China, where she was educated in both Eastern and Western traditions.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on Jin West Virginia while her parents were on leave from their missionary work in China. Her unique cultural grounding and powerful soul provided the perfect foundation for her acclaimed novel, The Good Earth, and the many works that followed. Because she grew up there, she understood and loved China-despite the fact that her adopted homeland banned her works for many decades. By the time of her death at age 80, she had published more than 70 books. The first American woman to win the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes, she used her humanity and literary talent to introduce Chinese culture to the West. Buck was a legend whose notoriety lives long after her death.
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