... one of the most famous American author of the 1930's. The 1930's were very difficult years for America. The stock market crashed creating the Great Depression of America's economy and the agriculture was destroyed during the Dust Bowl. These were such pivotal points in history. Steinbeck is such a phenomenal author because ... a reader in his work by making them feel like they are actually there. For his talent of expressing the lives of the American people in literature, he was presented the Noble Prize in 1962. Steinbeck grew up in California and many of his novels were set there. His...

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... a critical success but not a theatrical hit. Sinclair spent the remainder of his life in California, where he worked in labor organizing and protest movements. At the height of the Great Depression, he helped organize a movement called End Poverty in America, and tried to use it as a political base to run for governor of California. His radical politics were condemned by too ... even began to worry about what the kind of working conditions Sinclair described in the career of Jurgis Rudken. Today, The Jungle is recognized as a masterpiece of thecrusading? type of literature, and the judg...

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