Pearl Buck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. Instead of the award bringing a lot of fame, it brought criticism. She did sell copies of her books, but there were a lot of people who thought that the prize should have gone to someone else. The three main criticisms were that:
1. She had lived in China for so long
and thus not really
American
2. She made too much money and was
too popular making
her writing
too facile
3. She was female
An American female had never won the prize for literature before, and many people were upset by the new ideas.
