"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being."
- Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892 – 1973, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was an American writer and
novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before
1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction
book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and
truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical
masterpieces". She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
After returning to the United
States in 1935, she continued writing prolifically, became a prominent advocate
of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Chinese and
Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of
Asian and mixed-race adoption.
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