Buck kept writing until her death from lung cancer in Danby, Vermont, USA, in March 1973. Other notable works of the prolific writer of fiction as well as non-fiction are for instance Dragon Seed (1942), The Promise (1943), The Big Wave (1948), Peony (1948), and The Living Reed (1963). Buck received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. “For her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces” Pearl S. In 1935 she got divorced and married her editor Richard Walsh with whom she had been involved since 1930. Buck devoted herself to writing and brought out her first novel titled East Wind: West Wind in 1930 which was immediately followed by The House of Earth trilogy ( The Good Earth: 1931 Sons: 1933 A House Divided: 1935). After college in the USA she returned to China and married the agricultural economist missionary John Lossing Buck.
Her parents being Presbyterian missionaries in China she grew up in Zhenjiang near Nanking. Buck, also known under her Chinese name 賽珍珠, was born as Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Virginia, USA, in June 1892.
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