Order of Pearl S. Buck Books

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was an American writer known for her literary fiction, non-fiction, and children's literature. She received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Medal for her novel The Good Earth. As the daughter of American missionaries, she spent much of her early life in China, where she set most of her novels and wrote extensively in her non-fiction works. After returning to the United States in 1934 due to civil unrest in China, Buck became an advocate for various causes, including civil rights and women's rights, and helped establish Welcome House, the first international/interracial adoption agency. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first American woman to achieve this honor. Buck passed away in Vermont in 1973. She published her first novel, East Wind: West Wind, in 1930, and her last novel, The Rainbow, was released in 1974. Below is a list of Pearl S. Buck’s books in the order of their original publication.