Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly.Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930.In 1931, John Day published Pearl’s second novel, The Good Earth.

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