The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Published in USA in 1931 Pearl S. Buck was born to missionary parents who were stationed in China, where she returned to after graduating. There, she met her husband and settled in Anhui Province and her writing career began. She went on to publish more than seventy books, and won the nobel prize in literature in 1938. The Good Earth won the Pulitzer prize and is part of a trilogy. It is about the brutality of life in poverty, for people who wo