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In 1938, Pocahontas County native Pearl S. Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She began her literary career with East Wind: West Wind in 1930, followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Good Earth in 1932. Buck went on to write over 100 works of fiction and non-fiction, introducing Asia and its people to Western readers.
An advocate for civil rights, women's rights, and people with disabilities, Buck’s lasting humanitarian legacies include Welcome House (1949), which facilitated the adoption of mixed-race children, and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (1964) to care for Amerasian children. Her birthplace in Hillsboro is now the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum.
