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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American author known for his social novels that address the economic struggles of rural labor. He gained fame with works like Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath, which depict the hardships faced by migrant workers. Steinbeck's later notable works include East of Eden and Travels with Charley, and he passed away in New York City in 1968.

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American author known for his social novels that address the economic struggles of rural labor. He gained fame with works like Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath, which depict the hardships faced by migrant workers. Steinbeck's later notable works include East of Eden and Travels with Charley, and he passed away in New York City in 1968.

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Steinbeck Biography and Questions

John Steinbeck (1902-1968), born in Salinas,


California, came from a family of moderate means. He
worked his way through college at Stanford University
but never graduated. In 1925 he went to New York,
where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a
free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California.
After publishing some novels and short stories,
Steinbeck first became widely known with Tortilla
Flat (1935), a series of humorous stories about
Monterey paisanos.

Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the
economic problems of rural labour, but there is also a streak of worship of
the soil in his books, which does not always agree with his matter-of-fact
sociological approach. After the rough and earthy humour of Tortilla
Flat, he moved on to more serious fiction, often aggressive in its social
criticism, to In Dubious Battle (1936), which deals with the strikes of the
migratory fruit pickers on California plantations. This was followed by Of
Mice and Men(1937), the story of the imbecile giant Lennie, and a series of
admirable short stories collected in the volume The Long Valley (1938). In
1939 he published what is considered his best work, The Grapes of
Wrath, the story of Oklahoma tenant farmers who, unable to earn a living
from the land, moved to California where they became migratory workers.

Among his later works should be mentioned East of Eden (1952), The
Winter of Our Discontent (1961), and Travels with Charley (1962), a
travelogue in which Steinbeck wrote about his impressions during a three-
month tour in a truck that led him through forty American states. He died in
New York City in 1968.
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