(1892 – 1973) Buck grew up in China with her missionary parents, returning several times during her career and even teaching at Nanjing University. Her experiences of the small Chinese farming villages fueled a prolific writing career, including over 100 works. Her second novel, The Good Earth, high-lighted a Chinese peasant family and earned her the Pulitzer Prize (1932), leading to the Nobel Prize for Literature (1938). Her novels also were frequently adapted to stage and screen with predominantly white casts: The Good Earth (1937), with Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, and Dragon Seed (1944), with Katharine Hepburn and Walter Huston. Buck created a foundation for international child assistance and Welcome House Social Services, an international adoption agency.