1938 - Nobel Prize for Literature "The Good Earth"

* Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" * Played a pioneering role in demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind * By 1927 Buck devoted herself in earnest to the vocation of writing * Committed to a range of issues that were largely ignored by her generation. Many of her life experiences and political views are described in her novels, short stories, fiction, children's stories * hallenged the American public by raising consciousness on topics such as racism, sex discrimination and the plight of Asian war children.

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