| Christina Aziz |
American writer and novelist, and Nobel-Prize winner, who was born in Virginia, USA. She lived for many years in China. She was born as Pearl Sydenstricker in June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.. She traveled with her parents within Christian missionaries to China, and she remained in China for many years during which she learned the Chinese language and customs and understood the Chinese people, which made her novels an attempt to bridge the gap between China and the United States. She grew up in the city of Chen Qiang and was, as she says, curious to know about people, including the details of their daily lives, and how they became what they have become. She returned to America to enroll in university, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Randolph-Macon College for Girls in 1914. She worked as a philosophy teacher in the same college for one year, after which she returned to China. She began writing her novel East Wind West Wind, and began writing her novel while on her way back from China to the United States in 1925. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. She was the first American novelist and poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She died on March 6, 1973 (aged 80) in Danby, Vermont, U.S.
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