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Pearl S. Buck
United States
Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, becoming the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize. Her novels set in China include The Good Earth 1931, adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1937. She also wrote under the pen name John Sedges and was a charter member of the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.