Also in 1935, Pearl was divorced from John Lossing Buck, and, on June 11, she married Richard J. Walsh, president of John Day Publishing Company. For the rest of her career, however, she continued writing under the name of Pearl S. Buck.
In 1936, Pearl Buck published two biographies that, with The Good Earth, would play a dominant role in her winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. The first of these was The Exile, a frank portrayal of Miss Buck's mother as an American girl and her missionary life in China. The second was Fighting Angel, a biography of Pearl's father, developed from a biographical sketch entitled "In Memoriam: Absalom Sydenstricker, 1852-1931," written shortly after his death. These two biographies were published together in 1944 as The Spirit and the Flesh.
After winning the Nobel Prize, Pearl Buck continued her writing with the same tremendous industry and extended her repertoire to include many genres. Her non-fiction works include Tell the People (1945), dealing with mass education; The Child Who Never Grew (1950), dealing with her daughter; an autobiography, My Several Worlds (1954); The Kennedy Women (1970), telling of the strength and suffering of the women surrounding the Kennedys; and Pearl Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972). Besides writing later Oriental novels, such as Pavilion of Women (1946), she also wrote such American works as American Triptych (1958), containing three novels first published under the pen name John Sedges: The Townsman, Voices in the House, and The Long Love.
Also contained within her vast writings are such plays as Flight into China (1939), The First Wife (1945), and A Desert Incident (1959). She wrote a novel treating the suppression of women, This Proud Heart (1938). Reaching into other media, she co-authored a musical production, Christine (1960), wrote radio scripts during World War II, and the movie script for Satan Never Sleeps (1962), from an outline by Leo McCarey.
