ITHACA, NY (607NewsNow) – An award-winning author has been enshrined in Ithaca.

The Pearl S. Buck historical marker was unveiled near the Forest Home Chapel on Sunday. Buck lived in the area first as a Cornell student in 1924, and again in 1932 while her husband pursued a PhD, just after she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel “The Good Earth.”

The project honoring Buck, also the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, was a partnership between Historic Ithaca and Cornell Professor Thomas Campanella.

“It was a brief but formative period for Pearl because this is where she really delved into and was encouraged in her writing,” Campanella told the Cornell Chronicle. “I wanted to help restore her legacy.”

The marker was paid for with grant money from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.