Pearl S. Buck

Author 53 / Writer 5 · 1560 – 2013 · 🎬 5 📖 53 · 🇺🇸 United States

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.

All · 58 🎬 Movies · 5 📖 Books · 53

Fiction History Fiction in English Fiction, general American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Highlights

Kinfolk

Kinfolk

1949

The Big Wave

The Big Wave

1947

The Angry Wife

The Angry Wife

1947

Frequent Collaborators

Mark Twain

4 shared

Eudora Welty

4 shared

O. Henry

4 shared

John Steinbeck

4 shared

John Updike

4 shared

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

3 shared

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🎬 Movies

Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed

writer

1944

📖 Books

Kinfolk

Kinfolk

author

1949

The Big Wave

The Big Wave

author

1947

The Angry Wife

The Angry Wife

author

1947

Cerca y Lejos/Far and Near

Cerca y Lejos/Far and Near

author

1947

The townsman [by] John Sedges

The townsman [by] John Sedges

author

1945

The water-buffalo children

The water-buffalo children

author

1943

The promise

The promise

author

1943

The Chinese children next door

author

1942

Dragon Seed (Progress English)

Dragon Seed (Progress English)

author

1941

Portrait of a marriage

Portrait of a marriage

author

1941

Today and forever

author

1941

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