
John Steinbeck
Pulitizer Prize winner, 1940. Also viewed as an impassioned defense for (or a dire prophecy regarding) the inevitable rise of the American Communist Party. USA, 1902-1968; "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception" Namesake for "Travels with Charley" In 1962 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. The Winter of our Discontent Ranch in the Salinas Valley of California, from "East of Eden", 1952 Government-run camp for migrant workers in "The Grapes of Wrath", 1939 Resembling Salinas Valley in California, from "In Dubious Battle", 1936 Harbor town on Long Island in "The Winter of Our Discontent", 1961 New Baytown neighborhood in "The Winter of Our Discontent" Author, d. 1968; Salinas, California In Search of America, 1962 Nobel Prize laureate (1902-1968)
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