... he couldn't find a publisher, he moved back in California. He had better luck in California because, three years later, in 1929, his novel, "Cup of Gold", because his first novel to be published. The following year, 1930, he married Carl Henning and moved to the family home in Pacific Grove. His father helped support the struggling couple through their rough times. Carol Henning was ... stayed to take care of her. Soon after his mother, and father's death in 1935, Steinbeck wrote to a friend, "The house in Salinas is pretty haunted now. I see things walking at night that it is not good ...

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... 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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... but convenient ideational strategy available to him in the 1930s. (Tedlock Introduction XXXIX) One novel of John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, takes place in the Salinas Valley of California. The drama is centered around two itinerant farm workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, with a dream of someday owning a place of their own. Lennie Small is a simple-minded, slow moving, shapeless hulk with pale ... not trying to imply that hope is futile. Although hope does not prevail at the end of this novel, throughout the body, it plays a critical factor. Hope improved the quality of life for ...

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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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... at getting some his work published Steinbeck returned to California in order to write his first novel. He worked at a Lake Tahoe Lodge, because that meant he would have plenty of time to work on his writings. That is where he finished the historical epic Cup of Gold. This book never really had a chance because it was released only two months before the ... stock market crash. Again Steinbeck sat down to begin writing a novel, but this time he would add a simple idea in it that would completely change his career. He made the setting of the book his boyhood home of the Salinas Valley. The...

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... at getting some his work published Steinbeck returned to California in order to write his first novel. He worked at a Lake Tahoe Lodge, because that meant he would have plenty of time to work on his writings. That is where he finished the historical epic Cup of Gold. This book never really had a chance because it was released only two months before the ... stock market crash. Again Steinbeck sat down to begin writing a novel, but this time he would add a simple idea in it that would completely change his career. He made the setting of the book his boyhood home of the Salinas Valley. The...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School