Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck. Writer: The Big Wave. Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood films, including Die gute Erde (1937) and Dragon Seed (1944). She also wrote novels using the pen-name 'John...
Pearl S. Buck. Writer: The Big Wave. Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood films, including Die gute Erde (1937) and Dragon Seed (1944). She also wrote novels using the pen-name 'John...
