All because of the good earth
through his life he rises from a humble farmer to a rich
landowner…
Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer
prize. This outstanding book is read by millions all around
the world making it a marvelous book still being read years
after it was written.
Pearl S. Buck was born in
Hillsboro, West Virginia.
She spent her youth in China,
in Chinkiang on the Yangtse
River. She learnedto speak
Chinese before she could speak
English. Her parents were
missionaries. Buck's father,
Absalom Sydenstricker, was a
humorless, scholarly man who
spent years trying to convert the
Chinese to Christianity. Buck's
life in China was not always
pleasant. When she was only a
child, the family was forced to
flee from forces of the Boxer
Rebellion.
