About Pearl S. Buck:
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
Pearl S. BuckMais elle est ainsi, vivant en elle-même, voyant de la beauté où d'autres n'en trouvent point.
Pearl S. BuckWhen good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck