[Photograph] Pearl Buck's most memorable achievements were her chronicles of China, where she had grown up. In 1930 she published her first novel, East Wind: West Wind, a study of the clash between the old and the new China. That work's success was surpassed the next year by The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize - winning portrayal of Chinese peasant society. In 1938 Buck became the first American woman awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

Clara Sipprell made this photograph. She sought to create portraits that conveyed atmosphere and mood as well as likeness.

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, bequest of Phyllis Fenner

Photograph of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), about 1950, by Clara Sipprell (1885-1975), gelatin silver print

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