Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck was a prolific writer, activist and humanitarian. She received the Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize for her book The Good Earth. She is remembered for her work on behalf of multi-cultured homeless children.

While living in China Buck was tutored by her mother and learned Confucianism. She returned to the United States to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College, graduating in 1914. Her first novel East Wind, West Wind was published in 1930. Buck went back to China to serve as a Presbyterian missionary until her resignation in 1933.

• East Wind:West Wind (1930)
• The Good Earth (1931)
• Sons (1933)
• The Mother (1933)
• A House Divided (1935)
• This Proud Heart (1938)
• The Big Wave (1938)
• Other Gods (1940)
• China Sky (1941)
• Dragon Seed (1942)
• The Promise (1943)
• Pavilion of Women (1946)
• God's Men (1951)
• The Hidden Flower (1952)
• Imperial Woman (1956)
• Letter from Peking(1957)
• Command the Morning (1959)
• Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
• The Living Reed (1963)
• 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)

• The Angry Wife (1947)
• A Long Love (1949)
• Voices in the House (1953)

• June 26, 1892: Born Hillsboro, West Virginia

• 1892: Family moved to China | Learns English as second language

• 1910: Attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia

• 1914: Returned to China after graduation

• 1917: Married John Lossing Buck

• 1926: Earned Master's Degree from Cornell University

• 1926-1933: Taught at The University of Nanking

• 1935: Bought Greenhills Farm in Pennsylvania

• 1949: Established "Welcome House Inc."

• 1967: Home bequeathed to Pearl S. Buck International

• March 6, 1973: Died

• The majority of links in the following timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups

• 1937: The Good Earth

• 1944: The Dragon Seed

• 1945: China Sky

• 1961: The Big Wave

• 1962: Satan Never Sleeps

• 1977: The Gift

• 2001: Pavilion of Women

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