Description: John Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath" published by Viking Press first Ed 11th Printing 1940. John Steinbeck was one of the great American authors, probably most famous for The Grapes of Wrath. He was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer. His works often dealt with social and economic issues. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters." He authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962 and Viking reset and republished the book. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists. Before his novel Tortilla Flat (1935), Steinbeck was an obscure writer "with little success". Although he had not achieved the status of a well-known writer, he never doubted that he would achieve greatness. Steinbeck achieved his first critical success with Tortilla Flat. Measures about 8.3" - 5.5". Beautiful embossed cover. 619 pages. This edition is selling for $270.00 on other sites without dustjackets, this book has a dustjacket. Hardcover edition. Highly recommended classic book!
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Author: John Steinbeck
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