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John Steinbeck

Born

in Salinas, California, The United States

February 27, 1902

Died

December 20, 1968

Website

http://www.steinbeck.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 5,624,399 ratings · 227,644 reviews · 1,117 distinct works • Similar authors

	Of Mice and Men 3.90 avg rating — 2,932,232 ratings — published 1937 — 446 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grapes of Wrath 4.04 avg rating — 1,021,841 ratings — published 1939 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East of Eden 4.45 avg rating — 705,109 ratings — published 1952	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pearl 3.59 avg rating — 287,217 ratings — published 1947 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 160,623 ratings — published 1943 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.09 avg rating — 111,595 ratings — published 1961 — 373 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 66,259 ratings — published 1935 — 338 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter of Our Discontent 4.01 avg rating — 55,977 ratings — published 1961 — 197 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Pony 3.51 avg rating — 62,377 ratings — published 1933 — 240 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moon Is Down 3.96 avg rating — 35,717 ratings — published 1942 — 243 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck, 130 pages, 1942

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The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 48 pages, 1876

64 votes, 26.0%

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave: Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave by Sojourner Truth, 128 pages, 1850

34 votes, 13.8%

Recitatif by Toni Morrison, 19 pages, 1983

32 votes, 13.0%

The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield, 112 pages, 1930

20 votes, 8.1%

A Jury Of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell, 48 pages, 1917

19 votes, 7.7%

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