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\u00a0\u00a4 \u00a0John Steinbeck \u00a0[1902 – 1968]<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A leading writer of novels about the working class and a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression,\u00a0John Steinbeck<\/strong>\u00a0worked as a laboratory assistant and farm laborer to support himself through six years of study at Stanford University, where he took only those courses that interested him without seeking a degree. In 1925 he traveled to New York (by way of the Panama Canal) on a freighter (boat that carries inventory). After arriving in New York, he worked as a reporter and as part of a construction crew building Madison Square Garden. During this time he was also collecting impressions for his first novel.\u00a0Cup of Gold\u00a0<\/em>(1929) was an unsuccessful attempt at romance involving the pirate Henry Morgan.<\/p>\n

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Undiscouraged, Steinbeck returned to his native California to begin work as a writer of serious fiction… He didn’t receive critical and popular success until 1935 with\u00a0Tortilla Flat, <\/em>which\u00a0many critics consider it his most artistically satisfying work.<\/p>\n

Steinbeck next dealt with the problems of labor unions in\u00a0In Dubious Battle\u00a0<\/em>(1936), an effective story of a strike by local grape pickers.\u00a0Of Mice and Men\u21d0<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1937), first conceived as a play, is a tightly constructed novella (short novel) about an unusual friendship between two migrant workers…<\/p>\n

Steinbeck’s series of articles for the\u00a0San Francisco Chronicle\u00a0<\/em>on the problems of migrant farm laborers provided material for\u00a0The Grapes of Wrath\u00a0<\/em>(1939), his major novel and the finest working-class novel of the 1930s, which\u00a0relates the struggle of a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers forced to turn over their land to the banks…\u00a0The Grapes of Wrath\u00a0<\/em>received the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the 1950s Steinbeck’s artistic decline was evident with a series of novels that were overly sentimental, stuffy, and lacking in substance. The author received modest critical praise in 1961 for his more ambitious novel\u00a0The Winter of Our Discontent,\u00a0<\/em>a study of the moral disintegration (falling apart) of a man of high ideals. In 1962\u00a0Travels with Charley,\u00a0<\/em>a pleasantly humorous account of his travels through America with his pet poodle, was well received. Following the popular success of the latter work, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During World War II (1939\u201345), which the United States entered to help other nations battle Germany, Italy, and Japan, Steinbeck served as a foreign correspondent…\u00a0Steinbeck’s fiction during the 1940s includes\u00a0The Moon Is Down\u00a0<\/em>(1942), a tale of the Norwegian resistance to occupation by the Nazis;\u00a0Cannery Row\u00a0<\/em>(1944), a return to the setting of\u00a0Tortilla Flat; The Wayward Bus\u00a0<\/em>(1947); and\u00a0The Pearl<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>a popular novella about a poor Mexican fisherman who discovers a valuable pearl that brings bad luck to his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n