... . "Rickett's helped Steinbeck to start taking on more philosophical correlations in all of his works." (Magill, 1888) Rickett's was the hero in many of Steinbeck's books most notably, Doc in Cannery Row. He was always the first person to read Steinbeck's manuscripts and his opinion was held in Steinbeck's highest esteem. Ed Rickett's died tragically young, but he lived on in many ... 's warmest books," (Leone, 52) and also known as one of his greatest. The next of Steinbeck's greatest California books was Cannery Row. Cannery Row is a story about the small town of Monterey, California. Mo...

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... . "Rickett's helped Steinbeck to start taking on more philosophical correlations in all of his works." (Magill, 1888) Rickett's was the hero in many of Steinbeck's books most notably, Doc in Cannery Row. He was always the first person to read Steinbeck's manuscripts and his opinion was held in Steinbeck's highest esteem. Ed Rickett's died tragically young, but he lived on in many ... 's warmest books," (Leone, 52) and also known as one of his greatest. The next of Steinbeck's greatest California books was Cannery Row. Cannery Row is a story about the small town of Monterey, California. Mo...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Moon Is Down (1942), about the German invasion of Norway, won critical praise. After World War II, in which he served as a war correspondent, Steinbeck wrote increasingly about social outcasts. Cannery Row (1945) relates the story of a group of vagabonds on the Monterey coast. The Wayward Bus (1947) presents a morality tale about characters who supposedly represent middle-class society. Burning Bright (1950 ... , 1955), which paralleled the history of his mother's family and was an allegorical modernization of the biblical story of Adam. Subsequent novels proved anticlimactic--Sweet Thur...

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... isn't my country anymore. And it won't be until I am dead. I makes me very sad." He left Monterey the next year and moved to New York. In 1945, his novel "Cannery Row", which was also set in Monterey, became published. In 1948, he moved from New York to Pacific Grove to examine the Californian's files of old newspapers to research, "East of ... ...

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... , 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 Discontent and Travels with Charley were his last books, both published in 1961. Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize ... ...

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