Pearl S.Buck (1892 –1973), a well known novelist,
was born of American missionary parents. Her first
playmates were Chinese children, and she could
speak their language before she mastered her own.
My Several Worlds is her famous autobiography and
her novel The Good Earth won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize.
She was the first American woman novelist to receive
the Nobel Prize in 1938. She became known for her
books which deal sympathetically with life in China.
The present story highlights the sacrifice of an old
woman for humanity