The Good Earth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Pearl Buck’s novel The Good Earth appeared in 1931, it was at once acclaimed as the superlative word-picture of China. When Hollywood started to produce The ...

The African American Heritage Family Tree Museum will host a History Alive! presentation of Pearl S. Buck at 127 Log Town Road, Ansted, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8. Pearl Buck was born in West ...

THE PATRIOT — Pearl S. Buck — John Day ($2.50). One consequence of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is that the prizewinner’s next books come in for much severer criticism. If any Nobel ...

Most people recognize Pearl Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, for her career-launching 1931 novel “The Good Earth.” But few realize the world traveler retired to the ...