Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions
Pearl Buck
Between 1901 and 2021, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been issued to 118 laureates in the 114 times it has been given out. One of the recipients of the award in 1938 was Pearl Buck, a West Virginia native who started writing in the ’20s. The daughter of the missionaries largely grew up in Zhenjiang, China, acquiring the Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu.
Due to her epic description of Chinese peasant life and her two memoir-biographies, Buck became the first American woman to bag the laureate for literature. One of her best-selling novels in the United States, “The Good Earth,” won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize.
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