The Good Earth (1931), a poignant tale of a Chinese peasant and his slave-wife and their struggle upward, was a best seller. Her first published novel, East Wind, West Wind (1930), was written aboard a ship headed for America. She began contributing articles on Chinese life to American magazines in 1922. During that time she briefly resumed studying in the United States at Cornell University, where she took an M.A. She returned to China and taught English literature in Chinese universities in 1925–30. Buck although later divorced and remarried, she retained the name Buck professionally. In May 1917 she married missionary John L.

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