Buck Pearl

Pearl S. Buck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Laureate, Typed Letter Signed
Single page typed letter signed, 5.75" x 7.5", on her personal letterhead of Pearl S. Buck, 401 Graybar Building, New York. Dated "November 23, 1940" and signed by Buck in full signature "Pearl S. Buck". Small paper clip indents else near fine.
Pearl Buck (1892-1973) was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She grew up in China, where her parents were missionaries, but was educated at Randolph-Macon Woman's College. After her graduation she returned to China and lived there until 1934 with the exception of a year spent at Cornell University, where she took an M.A. in 1926. Pearl Buck began to write in the twenties; her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, appeared in 1930. It was followed by The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), and A House Divided (1935), together forming a trilogy on the saga of the family of Wang. The Good Earth stood on the American list of «best sellers» for a long time and earned her several awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. "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. This lovely letter by Buck was written just 2 years after receiving the Nobel Prize requesting  of Miss Perkins 'Won't you take a few minutes to read the attached report".

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