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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: 3.99 · 5,690,034 ratings · 235,978 reviews · 1,127 distinct worksSimilar authors
Of Mice and Men

3.90 avg rating — 2,954,879 ratings — published 1937 — 28 editions
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The Grapes of Wrath

4.04 avg rating — 1,028,887 ratings — published 1939 — 14 editions
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East of Eden

4.46 avg rating — 729,523 ratings — published 1952 — 591 editions
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The Pearl

3.59 avg rating — 291,615 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

4.06 avg rating — 162,164 ratings — published 1943 — 369 editions
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Travels with Charley: In Se...

4.08 avg rating — 112,655 ratings — published 1961 — 371 editions
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Tortilla Flat

3.83 avg rating — 66,945 ratings — published 1935 — 16 editions
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The Winter of Our Discontent

4.01 avg rating — 56,468 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions
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The Red Pony

3.51 avg rating — 62,864 ratings — published 1933 — 239 editions
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The Moon Is Down

3.96 avg rating — 36,269 ratings — published 1942 — 17 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

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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