Author
Pearl S. Buck
June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973 · United States
Translator, Novelist, Autobiographer, Human rights defender, Screenwriter, Journalist, Children's writer, Writer, Missionary, Prose writer
Titles on list
23
Total weeks
273
Peak rank
#1
Weeks at #1
14
Biography
- Born
- June 26, 1892 · Hillsboro
- Died
- March 6, 1973 · Danby
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Female
- Languages
- English, Mandarin, Standard Chinese
- Education
- Cornell University, Randolph–Macon College
Awards & Honours
- 1932Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
- 1935William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1938Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1964Horatio Alger Award
- 1973National Women's Hall of Fame
On the Bestseller Lists
23 titles
THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MADAME LIANG
#9 · 2 wks
THE TIME IS NOON
#10 · 3 wks
THE LIVING REED
#4 · 23 wks
A BRIDGE FOR PASSING
#10 · 9 wks
COMMAND THE MORNING
#14 · 3 wks
LETTER FROM PEKING
#2 · 18 wks
IMPERIAL WOMAN
#2 · 24 wks
MY SEVERAL WORLDS
#3 · 27 wks
COME, MY BELOVED
#7 · 11 wks
THE HIDDEN FLOWER
#6 · 17 wks
GOD'S MEN
#8 · 15 wks
KINFOLK
#6 · 13 wks
PEONY
#3 · 14 wks
PAVILION OF WOMEN
#4 · 18 wks
PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE
#11 · 3 wks
DRAGON SEED
#1 · 19 wks
THE PATRIOT
#2 · 11 wks
THIS PROUD HEART
#4 · 8 wks
THE EXILE
#4 · 7 wks
A HOUSE DIVIDED
#4 · 8 wks
THE MOTHER
#3 · 4 wks
SONS
#1 · 6 wks
THE GOOD EARTH
#1 · 10 wks
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review. Biographical data from Wikipedia/Wikidata (CC0).