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Many of Buck's novels were about China, where she spent her childhood
as a missionary's daughter. When she first circulated her manuscript for The
Good Earth to publishers, it received many rejections, including one famous
letter that simply said "no one wants to read books about Chinamen."
Eventually, The Good Earth (1931) became a best-seller and won the Pulitzer
Prize. Buck went on to win the Nobel Prize (1938) and helped open the eyes of
the West to the colossus of the East.