Which novel by Pearl S. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932?

The novel by Pearl S. Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 was The Good Earth.

Published in 1931, the novel portrays the changing fortunes of Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer, and his wife, O-Lan. Its focus on land, family, hunger, marriage, wealth, and social change offered American readers a vivid fictional view of rural Chinese life during the early twentieth century.

The Pulitzer category was still called the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932; it was renamed Fiction in 1947. The Good Earth became a major bestseller in the United States and was the first volume of Buck's House of Earth trilogy. Sons and A House Divided followed, so those titles are related but were not the Pulitzer winner.

Buck had grown up largely in China as the daughter of American missionaries, giving her substantial firsthand familiarity with the setting. The novel helped establish her international reputation and contributed to her receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.