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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Though she grew up in China with her missionary parents, she always felt a strong connection to her birthplace in the Greenbrier Valley.
Buck wrote over 100 books. Her most famous novel, The Good Earth (1931), won the Pulitzer Prize and helped introduce readers in the West to Chinese life and culture. Many of her stories were inspired by her time living in Chinese villages with her first husband.
In the U.S., she became a strong voice for civil rights, women's rights, and people with disabilities. She and her second husband adopted eight children and started agencies to help mixed-race and Asian American children.
Buck’s childhood home is now the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum in Hillsboro. She donated hundreds of her writings to West Virginia University. One of her last books, The Eternal Wonder, was published after her death in 2013.
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