Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker)

June 26, 1892 to March 6, 1973

Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia and Died in Danby, Vermont

Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel Laureate, and a unique voice. In 2004 she received Oprah Winfrey's official blessing. Too bad she reached the pinnacle of her career so many years after her death.

Quote

"It was a voice so feminine that it concealed everything."

Off-Site Resource

Excellent Website Devoted To Pearl S. Buck

Bibliography (Bibliography from Peter Conn's Pearl S. Buck website, used with permission. Conn is the Author of Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography.)

Novels

East Wind, West Wind - 1930

The Good Earth - 1931

Sons - 1932

A House Divided - 1933

The Mother - 1934

House of Earth - 1935 (The Complete Good Earth Trilogy:The Good Earth; Sons; A House Divided)

This Proud Heart - 1938

The Patriot - 1939

Other Gods: An American Legend - 1940

China Sky - 1941

China Flight - 1942

Dragon Seed - 1942

The Promise - 1943

Portrait of a Marriage - 1945

Pavilion of Women - 1946

Peony - 1948

Kinfolk - 1949

God's Men - 1951

The Hidden Flower - 1952

Come, My Beloved - 1953

Imperial Woman - 1956

Letter from Peking - 1957

Command the Morning - 1959

Satan Never Sleeps - 1962

The Living Reed - 1963

Death in the Castle - 1965

The Time is Noon - 1966

The New Year - 1968

The Three Daughters of Madame Liang - 1969

Mandala - 1970

The Goddess Abides - 1972

All Under Heaven - 1973

The Rainbow - 1974

Books Written as John Sedges

The Townsman - 1945

The Angry Wife - 1947

The Long Love - 1949

Bright Procession - 1952

Voices in the House - 1953

Short Story Collections

First Wife and Other Stories - 1933

Today and Forever - 1941

Far and Near - 1947

Fourteen Stories - 1961

The Good Deed and Other Stories of Asia Past and Present - 1969

Once Upon a Christmas - 1972

East and West - 1975

Secrets of the Heart - 1976

Nonfiction

The Exile - 1936

Fighting Angel - 1936

The Chinese Novel - 1939

Of Men and Women - 1941

American Unity and Asia - 1942

China in Black and White an Album of Woodcuts by Contemporary Chinese Artists - 1945

Talk About Russia, with Masha Scott - 1945

Tell the People: Talks With James Yen About the Mass Education Movement - 1945

How It Happens: Talk About the German People, 1914-1933 with Erna von Pustau - 1947

American Argument, with Eslanda Goode Robeson - 1949

The Child Who Never Grew - 1950

My Several Worlds - 1954

Friend to Friend: A Candid Exchange Between Pearl S. Buck and Carlos P. Romulo - 1958

The Delights of Learning: Address Delivered On the Occasion of the University of Pittsburgh Honors Convocation, April 6, 1960 - 1960 (pamphlet)

A Bridge for Passing - 1961

Children for Adoption - 1964

The Joy of Children - 1964

The Gifts They Bring: Our Debt to the Mentally Retarded - 1965

For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue - 1966

The People of Japan: A Perceptive Portrait of Their Life Today - 1966

The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal - 1970

Pearl S. Buck's America - 1971

The Story Bible - 1971

China Past and Present - 1972

Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook - 1972

Children's Books

The Young Revolutionist - 1932

The Chinese Children Next Door - 1942

The Water-Buffalo Children - 1943

The Dragon Fish - 1944

Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China - 1945

The Big Wave - 1947

One Bright Day - 1950

The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen - 1953

Johnny Jack and His Beginnings - 1954

The Christmas Miniature - 1957

The Christmas Ghost - 1960

Welcome Child - 1963

The Big Fight - 1964

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - 1966

The Chinese Storyteller - 1971

Mrs. Starling's Problem - 1973