The document summarizes information about the author and Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. It states that the author is graduating from Minnesota State University Moorhead in July 2009 with a degree in Mass Communication and an emphasis in Public Relations. It also provides biographical details about Pearl S. Buck, including that she was born in West Virginia, received degrees from Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Cornell University, and is renowned for her novel The Good Earth which won the Pulitzer Prize and led to her receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.