Pearl S. Buck's career started when she began writing articles for publication in various magazines. She was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. In 1930 she became a prolific writer and had many books published after that date. Her second husband was Richard J. Walsh, president of the John Day Publishing Company, New York City. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932, the William Dean Howell medal in 1935 and Nobel Award in Literature in 1938. Pearl S. Buck died in 1973.