Major Awards and Honors
Nobel Prize for Literature
Pulitzer Prize
- 1932: Novel – "The Good Earth"
O. Henry Award for Short Fiction
- 1933: Second Prize – "The Frill" (published in Woman's Home Companion)
- 1934: First Prize – "Shanghai Scene" (published in Asia)
- 1943: First Prize – "The Enemy" (published in Harper's Magazine)
Pearl S. Buck
(1892 – 1973)
Bibliography
Novels
- East Wind: West Wind (1930)
- The Mother (1934)
- House of Earth (1935):
- The Good Earth (1931)
- Sons (1932)
- A House Divided (1935)
- Now and Forever (1936-1937)
- This Proud Heart (1938)
- The Patriot (1939)
- Other Gods (1941)
A/K/A: An American Legend
- Dragon Seed (1942)
- China Gold (1942)
- China Sky (1942)
- The Promise (1943)
- China Flight (1945)
- Portrait of a Marriage (1945)
A/K/A: Man's Daily Bread
- Pavilion of Women (1946)
- Peony (1948)
- Kinfolk (1949)
- God's Men (1951)
- Sylvia (1951)
A/K/A: No Time for Love
- The Hidden Flower (1952)
- Satan Never Sleeps (1952)
– Initially movie script; outline by Leo McCarey.
- Come, My Beloved (1953)
- Imperial Woman (1956)
- Letter from Peking (1957)
- Command the Morning (1959)
- The Living Reed (1963)
- Death in the Castle (1965)
- The Time Is Noon (1966-1967)
- The New Year (1968)
- The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969)
- Mandala (1970)
- The Goddess Abides (1972)
- All Under Heaven (1973)
- The Rainbow (1974)
Novellas, Short Story, Fairy Tale and Poetry Collections
- Father Andrea (1930s)
Also in The First Wife and Other Stories (Twenty-seven Stories)
- The First Wife and Other Stories (1933)
- Stories for Little Children (1940)
A/K/A: When Fun Begins
- Today and Forever (1941)
- Twenty-Seven Stories (1943)
A/K/A: Stories of China:
- The First Wife and Other Stories
- Today and Forever
- Far and Near (1947)
- Fourteen Stories (1961)
- Hearts Come Home and Other Stories (1962)
- The First Wife and Other Stories
- Today and Forever
- Far and Near
- Escape at Midnight and Other Stories (1963)
- Fairy Tales of the Orient (1965)
- My Mother's House (1965)
- The Good Deed and Other Stories (1969)
- Once Upon a Christmas (1972)
- Words of Love (1974)
Poetry, selected from Buck's "Treasure Book" (diary).
- East and West (1975)
- Mrs. Stoner and the Sea and Other Works (1976)
- Secrets of the Heart (1976)
- The Lovers and Other Stories (1977)
- The Woman Who Was Changed and Other Stories (1979)
Translation
- All Men Are Brothers (1933)
2 volumes; translated from the Chinese novel Shui Hu Chuan.
Juvenilia
- The Young Revolutionist (1932)
- Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China (1945)
- The Chinese Children Next Door (1942)
- The Water-Buffalo Children (1943)
- The Dragon Fish (1944)
- The Big Wave (1947)
- One Bright Day (1950)
- One Bright Day and Other Stories for Children (1952)
- One Bright Day
- The Chinese Children Next Door
- The Water-Buffalo Children
- The Dragon Fish
- Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China
- The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yet-sen (1953)
- Johnny Jack and His Beginnings (1954)
- The Beech Tree (1954)
A/K/A: The Heart's Beginning
- My Several Worlds (1957)
- The Christmas Miniature (1957)
- The Christmas Ghost (1960)
- Welcome Child (1964)
- The Big Fight (1965)
- The Little Fox in the Middle (1966)
- The Water-Buffalo Children & The Dragon Fish (1966)
- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1967)
- The Beech Tree & Johnny Jack and His Beginnings (late 1960s)
- The Chinese Story Teller (1971)
- Mrs. Starling's Problem (1972)
- A Gift for the Children (1973)
- Stories for Little Children
- The Chinese Story Teller
- The Christmas Ghost
- The Christmas Miniature
- The Chinese Children Next Door
- The Water-Buffalo Children
- The Beech Tree
- The Old Demon (1982)
- The Enemy (1986)
- Little Red (1988)
Nonfiction: On Children's Welfare
- The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
- The Joy of Children (1964)
- Children for Adoption (1964)
- The Gifts They Bring (1965)
- A Community Success Story: The Founding of the Pearl Buck Center (1972)
Memoirs and Biographies
- The Exile (1936)
Biography of Buck's mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker
– Written in 1921.
- Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul (1936)
Biography of Buck's father, Absalom Sydenstricker.
- The Spirit and the Flesh (1944)
- My Several Worlds: A Personal Record (1954)
- A Bridge for Passing (1962)
Published Dialogues
- 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 Goods Robeson (1949)
- Friend to Friend: A Candid Exchange Between Pearl Buck and Carlos P. Romulo (1956)
- For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue, with Theodore F. Harris (1966)
Articles, Speeches, Correspondence
- East and West and the Novel: Sources of the Early Chinese Novel (1932)
– Two addresses.
- Is There a Case for Foreign Missions? (1932)
- The Chinese Novel (1939)
– Nobel Prize Lecture (December 12, 1938).
- Of Men and Women (1941)
- American Unity and Asia (1942)
A/K/A: Asia and Democracy
– Letters, articles and speeches.
- What America Means to Me (1943)
– Letters, addresses, lectureand articles.
- China In Black and White(1945)
– Illustrated with Chinese woodcuts; commentary.
- A Certain Star (1957)
- The People of Japan (1966)
– With Lyle Kenyon Engel; photographs by Stuart Fox.
- To My Daughters, With Love (1967)
– Commencement addresses and other writings.
- China As I See It (1970)
– Speeches, articles, letter and one new chapter.
- The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal (1970)
- Pearl Buck's America (1971)
- The Story Bible (1971)
– With L. K. Engel:
- Volume I, The Old Testament
- Volume II, The New Testament
- China Past and Present (1972)
Cookbook
- Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972)
Recipes from 11 Oriental countries with introductions by Buck.
Writing as John Sedges
- The Townsman (1945)
- The Angry Wife (1947)
- The Long Love (1949)
- Bright Procession (1952)
- Voices in the House (1953)
- American Triptych (1958)
- The Townsman
- The Long Love
- Voices in the House
For further information consult:
Pearl S. Buck's biography at the Kirjasto Authors' Calendar
Themis-Athena's select "East Meets West" bibliography
Themis-Athena's Guide to Women Writers: Part 1,
Part 2 and
Part 3
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