GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -First American Woman to Win Both a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize In 1938, Pearl Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for her epic portrayal of Chinese peasant life and for the biographies of her parents. She was the first American woman to be awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pearl Buck died in March, 1973, just two months before her eighty-first birthday. She is buried at Green Hills Farm.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pearl Buck’s first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published in 1930. It was followed by the trilogy of The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), and A House Divided (1935), which is a saga about the Wang family.