... a farm workers" strike in California. Two years later, one of his more successful and popular books, Of Mice and Men, was written. It was followed by The Long Valley, another collection of short stories, in 1938. The Grapes of Wrath, written in 1939, was perhaps Steinbeck's most famous novel, for ... which he won the Pulitzer Prize. During the Second World War, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune. Those articles were later published as Once There was a War. Cannery Row, another novel about California, was then published in 1945. The Winter of ... published in 1961. Steinbeck recei...

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... His Noble Knights (1976). He has remained popular principally, however, for his compassionate portrayal of America's forgotten poor.(griolers) The works of Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by U.S. novelist John Steinbeck is one of the most powerful chronicles in American literature of the Depression of the 1930s. It deals with the Joads, a family that loses its farm through foreclosure ... New Essays in Criticism (1992); Owens, Louis, John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America (1985); Parini, Jay, John Steinbeck (1995); Steinbeck, Elaine, and Wallsten, Robert, eds., Steinbeck: A Life in Le...

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