The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes "Sons" (1932) and "A House Divided" (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and
Jeanne Mackin Mackin's novels have been written about by Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie in The New York Review of Books, in which she described the mysteries written under the pen name of Anna Maclean as "historically accurate and entertaining". Jeanne Mackin Jeanne Mackin is an American author and a fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. Her published novels include "A Lady of Good Family", "The Beautiful American", "The Sweet By and By", "Dreams of Empire", "The Queen’s War" and "The Frenchwoman". She published a trilogy of mysteries with New American Library, writing as Anna Maclean. The mysteries were also translated and