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On February 27, we celebrate the birthday of literary giant John Steinbeck (1902-1968). Winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, Steinbeck set most of his novels in California, with everyman protagonists. His works explored the human condition, with themes of loneliness, identity, fate and injustice.
Steinbeck’s most famous work is The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939. This novel won him both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in the United States, and is often required reading in high school and college classes. Set during the Great Depression, the novel describes the journey of the Joads, a poor family who leaves Oklahoma for California in search of work and a better future.
Here at Faded Page, we have a large number of Steinbeck’s works, including well-known novels such as Cannery Row and East of Eden, as well as novellas and short stories.
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