Pavilion of Women Author:Pearl Buck A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author — A Nobel Prize-winning Author Many of Pearl Buck's award-winning novels dealt largely with the peasants, the plain people of China, whose lives - though sturdy and dramatic - were rarely complex, whose thoughts and words were simple and direct. In Pavilion of Women, the story is of a great family of... more » the landed gentry, well-to-do, cultivated, aware and in the midst of the variety of human experience.« less