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Books by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929).

After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey's paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.

Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with The Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with Sea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette The Moon is Down (1942).Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama, Burning Bright(1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumental East of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family's history.

The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously published Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata!(1975), The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), and Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989).

Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.

Susan Shillinglaw is a professor of English San Jose State University. She is the author of On Reading the Grapes of Wrath and Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage.

Von Mäusen und Menschen: Roman By John Steinbeck
Von Mäusen und Menschen: Romanby John Steinbeck
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Zapata By John Steinbeck
Zapataby John Steinbeck
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV By John Steinbeck
The Short Reign of Pippin IVby John Steinbeck
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Red Pony The HGR Ele 2nd Edn By John Steinbeck
Red Pony The HGR Ele 2nd Ednby John Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
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Des souris et des hommes By John Steinbeck
Des souris et des hommesby John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck
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O Mice an Men By John Steinbeck
O Mice an Menby John Steinbeck
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La Perle By John Steinbeck
La Perleby John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck
Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men (Penguin Classics) By John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men (Penguin Classics)by John Steinbeck
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Viva Zapata! By John Steinbeck
Viva Zapata!by John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Menby John Steinbeck
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Rue de la sardine By John Steinbeck
Rue de la sardineby John Steinbeck
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The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
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The Pearl By John Steinbeck
The Pearlby John Steinbeck
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck
Cannery Rowby John Steinbeck
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The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" By John Steinbeck
The Log from the "Sea of Cortez"by John Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat By John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flatby John Steinbeck
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Travels with Charley By John Steinbeck
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The Moon Is Down By John Steinbeck
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La perla By John Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat By John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
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The Pearl By John Steinbeck
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The Winter of Our Discontent By John Steinbeck
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Cannery Row By John Steinbeck
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The Red Pony By John Steinbeck
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Burning Bright By John Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat By John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
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Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
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The Winter of Our Discontent By John Steinbeck
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Von Menschen und Mausen By John Steinbeck
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Sweet Thursday By John Steinbeck
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In Touch By John Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat By John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flatby John Steinbeck
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Once There Was a War By John Steinbeck
Once There Was a Warby John Steinbeck
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The Pearl By John Steinbeck
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The Wayward Bus By John Steinbeck
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The Long Valley By John Steinbeck
The Long Valleyby John Steinbeck
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Burning Bright By John Steinbeck
Burning Brightby John Steinbeck
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