... he was not successful. He returned to California and worked on his first novel, The Cup of Gold in 1929. His first successful book was Tortilla Flat written in 1935. It was a collection of humorous short stories. In Dubious Battle was about 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 Se...

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... youngest has little to believe in. Embittered by the brutal exploitation of migrant workers, Tom, who had been jailed for murder and who later kills again, becomes a labor organizer. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning (1940) novel, Steinbeck alternates his narrative with serious discussion of the problems of migrant laborers.(Groliers) Of Mice and Men (1937; film, 1939), a short novel by John Steinbeck set in Salinas, Calif., has been called Steinbeck ... 's most successful work. The novel deals with two migrant workers: Lennie, a physically powerful but mentally retarded giant, and George, ...

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