John Steinbeck

1902 - 1968 *

American Nobel laureate, Steinbeck's works encompassed his personal knowledge about his native state of California.

Born in 1902 at Salinas, California, and educated at Stanford, many of John Steinbeck's works detailed life among the farmers and labourers of southern California. His direct approach to social issues of the time. His work describes the poor and oppressed with a dignity and heroism.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, for his most widely recognised and acknowledged work, The Grapes of Wrath which deals with social issues during the depression.

East of Eden (1952) was made into a film in 1955, as have many of his other works.

His contributions to the literary field were acknowledged when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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American novelist, story writer, playwright, and essayist. Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He is best remembered for THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1939), a novel widely considered to be a 20th-century classic. The impact of the book has been compared to that of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The epic about the migration of the Joad family, driven from its bit of land in Oklahoma to California, arose a wide debate about the hard lot of migrant laborers, and helped to put an agricultural reform into effect.

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