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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

Influences

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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 · 5,690,201 ratings · 236,007 reviews · 1,128 distinct works • Similar authors

	Of Mice and Men 3.90 avg rating — 2,954,933 ratings — published 1937 — 1005 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 — 1,028,907 ratings — published 1939 — 14 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 4.46 avg rating — 729,589 ratings — published 1952 — 591 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 Pearl 3.59 avg rating — 291,624 ratings — published 1947 — 54 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 — 162,165 ratings — published 1943 — 369 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 — 112,659 ratings — published 1961 — 371 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 — 66,947 ratings — published 1935 — 16 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 — 56,470 ratings — published 1961 — 2 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 — 62,864 ratings — published 1933 — 239 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 — 36,270 ratings — published 1942 — 17 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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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 1945, 185 pages

41 votes, 25.3%

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, 1988, 462 pages

36 votes, 22.2%

My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather, 1926, 112 pages

26 votes, 16.0%

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett, 1933, 201 pages

24 votes, 14.8%

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, 1959, 165 pages

15 votes, 9.3%

Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal, 1955, 372 pages

7 votes, 4.3%

Jealousy, by Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1957, 150 pages

7 votes, 4.3%

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, 1998, 234 pages

6 votes, 3.7%

162 total votes

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