The first paperback printed in the U.S. was an edition of The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck printed by Pocket Books in 1938.

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She raised seven adopted children and wrote many later works at her farm in suburban Bucks County, where she's buried and where her namesake nonprofit, Pearl S. Buck International, is based.

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