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John Steinbeck


Born
in Salinas, California, The United States
February 27, 1902

Died
December 20, 1968

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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
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Average rating: 3.97 · 5,346,383 ratings · 198,639 reviews · 1,040 distinct worksSimilar authors
Of Mice and Men

3.90 avg rating — 2,812,821 ratings — published 1937 — 170 editions
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The Grapes of Wrath

4.03 avg rating — 989,126 ratings — published 1939 — 998 editions
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East of Eden

4.44 avg rating — 630,320 ratings — published 1952 — 15 editions
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The Pearl

3.56 avg rating — 269,467 ratings — published 1947 — 100 editions
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

4.06 avg rating — 153,385 ratings — published 1943 — 385 editions
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Travels with Charley: In Se...

4.08 avg rating — 106,397 ratings — published 1961 — 11 editions
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Tortilla Flat

3.83 avg rating — 62,855 ratings — published 1935 — 338 editions
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The Winter of Our Discontent

4.01 avg rating — 53,479 ratings — published 1961 — 23 editions
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The Red Pony

3.50 avg rating — 59,984 ratings — published 1933 — 2 editions
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The Moon Is Down

3.95 avg rating — 33,260 ratings — published 1942 — 241 editions
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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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Since classics won the poll for our genre in January, I decided to pick a theme and what better choice for the new year than a theme of new beginnings, starting over, diving into something different. I researched it online and the three books in the poll are common classics that come up under this theme. I hope you like the choices. This poll will be open until Tuesday, December 20.

Note: We will not have a poll for February, as we will be reading a special book in honor of Black History Month...The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

 
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