American writer and novelist (1892–1973) best known for The Good Earth, a novel that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 and contributed to her receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Unsigned handwritten draft manuscript by Pearl S. Buck for a piece entitled "Enough For A Lifetime," totaling 49 pages on 26 loose-leaf leaves neatly tied together at left margin, no date but first published in the January 1935 issue of Woman's Home Companion. Buck has extensively corrected the text, with numerous deletions and revisions throughout. The manuscript begins: "Miss Willey hesitated a moment before she opened the door into the courtyard. She dreaded more sharply each autumn these winter mornings of cold yellow sandy winds. 'May and June don't make up to me for it,' she thought miserably, staring through the square of glass set in the door." In fine condition. A desirable working draft by the Nobel and Pulitzer winner.
