Series 2. Non-fiction, ca. 1936-1972

Includes typescripts, typescript carbons, mixed manuscripts, and holographs for eighteen of Buck's non-fiction works. Topics include Asia, the role of women in American society, racism, children's welfare, and adoption.

Highlights include:

multiple drafts and leather-bound presentations of Buck's manuscripts for the biographies of her parents -- The Exile and The Fighting Angel -- two novels that helped earn her the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature;

a mixed manuscript of the book titled Of Men and Women;

typescripts of How it Happens;

multiple drafts of The Joy of Children; and

multiple drafts of her autobiographies, My Several Worlds and A Bridge for Passing.

Additional non-fiction works can be found in Series 6, Other Works. Galleys of non-fiction works can be found in Series 8, Oversized.