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John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck American novelist and social critic whose work examined the lives of working-class Americans with compassion and moral urgency. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) defined the literary legacy of the Great Depression and earned him the Pulitzer Prize. "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden" are among the most taught novels in American schools. Nobel Prize in Literature 1962.

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American novelist and social critic whose work examined the lives of working-class Americans with compassion and moral urgency. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) defined the literary legacy of the Great Depression and earned him the Pulitzer Prize. "Of Mice and Men" and "East of Eden" are among the most taught novels in American schools. Nobel Prize in Literature 1962.

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1900s
1902

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Born in Salinas, United States

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