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Awards and Accolades

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinguished Fiction in 1935.^[3] Its author, Pearl S. Buck, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.^[4] The Columbia Encyclopedia calls The Good Earth Buck's "finest work."^[5]