One of the most popular literary figures in American literature is a woman who spent almost half of her life in China. In her lifetime she 1 the U.S.’s most highly acclaimed literary award, the Pulitzer Prize, and also the most prestigious form of literary 2 in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pearl S. Buck was almost a household name throughout much of her lifetime because of her prolific( 多产的 )literary 3 , which consisted of some 85 4 works, including several dozen novels, six collections of short stories, 14 books for Children, and more than a dozen works of non-fiction. When she was 80 years old, some 25 volumes were 5 publication. Many of those books were set in China, the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life 6 as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. As the 7 of those two cultures she became, she described herself as “mentally bifocal (双焦点的)。“ Her unique 8 made her into an unusually interesting and versatile human being. As we examine the life of Pearl S. Buck, we cannot help but be 9 that we are in fact meeting three separate people, a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer, and a humanitarian and philanthropist ( 慈善家). One cannot really get to know Pearl S. Buck without learning 10 each of the three. Though honored in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, Pearl S. Buck as a total human being, not only a famous author, is a captivating ( 迷人的) subject of study.