... approach toward what constitutes the "realistic" in life and literature. Realism imitates familiar experiences and place." (Smith, 9) He uses his familiarity with the area in this book to give very accurate and detailed accounts of the scenery. Cannery Row was one of his most famous California books. The Grapes of Wrath is widely known as Steinbeck's great masterpiece. The book is about the a family of migrant workers moving from the dustbowl in Oklahoma ... to the Salinas Valley to work as tenant farmers. Along the way the Joads face much persecution and conflict within themselves. To ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... riots in Salinas and killings in the streets of that dear little town where I was born." In 1938, "The Grapes of Wrath" inspired nationwide attention on the living conditions and exploitation of farm workers. For Los Gatos, Steinbeck wrote, "The vilification of me out here for the large land owners and bankers is pretty bad. The latest is a rumor started by them that the Okies hated me and have threatened ... to kill me for lying about them. I"m frightened at the rolling might of this damned thing. It ... different." You won't! I still have not been forgiven. Only when I am delivered in...

• Word Count: 1322
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 Second World War, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune. Those articles were later ... ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 and leaves the Oklahoma Dust Bowl for California in the hope of finding work. The eldest generation has the comfort of religion, the next one has a dogged perseverance, but ... the youngest has little to believe in. Embittered by the brutal exploitat...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... approach toward what constitutes the "realistic" in life and literature. Realism imitates familiar experiences and place." (Smith, 9) He uses his familiarity with the area in this book to give very accurate and detailed accounts of the scenery. Cannery Row was one of his most famous California books. The Grapes of Wrath is widely known as Steinbeck's great masterpiece. The book is about the a family of migrant workers moving from the dustbowl in Oklahoma ... to the Salinas Valley to work as tenant farmers. Along the way the Joads face much persecution and conflict within themselves. To ...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School