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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck with 19 year-old son John (left), visits President Johnson in the Oval Office, May 16, 1966.
Born John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.
February 27, 1902(1902-02-27)
Salinas, California, United States
Died December 20, 1968 (aged 66)
New York, New York, United States
Occupation Novelist, Short story writer, War Correspondent
Notable work(s) The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice and Men[1]
Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature
1962
.John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.[2][3] (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer.^ John Steinbeck was born and raised in Salinas, in 1902.
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 ^ John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography by Jackson J. Benson .
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 ^ Born in 1902, John Steinbeck remained in the Salinas Valley area of California until he went to Stanford in 1919, where he took writing courses.

 .He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937).^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
  • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

 ^ His 1939 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "Grapes of Wrath" has over ten million copies in print.
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 ^ Of Mice and Men was the first novel that got recognition, first published in 1937.
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 .He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories.^ I would recommend this novel to people who like to read short and good books.

 ^ It was in a book of his non-fiction called “America and Americans.” .
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 ^ As a suggestion, do not buy the book alone, but rather would buy it as part of a collection such as Steinbeck's book: "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck," from Viking Press in 1953, and updated versions of that book.
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 .In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.^ In 1962 John Steinbeck got the Nobel-prize for literature...
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 ^ In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize.

 ^ He won the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Contents

Life

132 Central Avenue, Salinas, California, the home where Steinbeck lived his childhood.
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was of German and Irish descent. .Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck, Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, had shortened the family name to Steinbeck when he immigrated to the United States.^ No Comments » The Grapes of Wrath is an eye-opening novel which deals with the struggle for survival of a migrant family of farmers in the western United States.
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 ^ First published in the United States of America by the Viking Penguin, Inc., 1939 First published in Penguin Books 1976 Copyright John Steinbeck, 1939 Copyright renewed John Steinbeck, 1967 .
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 ^ October 19th, 2007 Steinbeck wanted to go to Fargo because it’s often the center point of the United States along the crease of a map when you fold it.
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 The family farm in Heiligenhaus, Germany, is still today named "Großsteinbeck".
.His father, John Steinbeck Sr., served as Monterey County Treasurer.^ His father was the county treasurer and his mother was a teacher.
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 .John's mother, Olive Hamilton, a former school teacher, shared Steinbeck's passion of reading and writing.^ Essay writing service > John Steinbeck Essays .
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 ^ She had a bulls ear (not a cap) "Do write "John" The reference to the Byrens trial is explained by Jackson Benson (THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STEINBECK, NY, 1984, p.
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 ^ I will make sure that I read other books by John Steinbeck.

 [4] .Steinbeck lived in a small rural town that was essentially a frontier settlement, set amid some of the world's most fertile land.^ By Paulanne Simmons For most small theater companies, the level of acting necessary for John Steinbeck’s "Of Mice and Men" would be prohibitive.
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 ^ Steinbeck chose to place the Joads within a penetrating vision of a larger family of humans, indeed within the larger natural world that humans shared with the land, vegetation, and animals.

 ^ Some women and teenagers would spend most of their lives preparing for a career in Hollywood.
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 [5] .He spent his summers working on nearby ranches and later with migrant workers on Spreckels ranch.^ He had to work alone now that Lennie had gone and became just another ordinary ranch worker.
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 ^ George and Lennie think that they are different from other workers because they have a dream, to have their very own ranch and work for themselves, the American dream.
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 ^ In the end when more work was available migrant workers had is better.
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 .He became aware of the harsher aspects of migrant life and the darker side of human nature, which material expressed in such works as Of Mice and Men.^ Like Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck wrote other books about men that work on farms, such as Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath.
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 ^ "Of mice and Men" shows how life was hard for the migrant workers of the 1930's.
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 ^ Most of the characters in Of Mice and Men admit, at one point or another, to dreaming of a different life.

 [5] He also explored his surroundings, walking across local forests, fields, and farms.[5]
.In 1919, Steinbeck graduated from Salinas High School and attended Stanford University intermittently until 1925, eventually leaving without a degree.^ Steinbeck attended Salinas High School and went on to study Marine Biology at Stanford University, but failed to finish his course.
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 ^ After school he went to college at Stanford University, but he dropped out without a degree to enter journalism in NY. He returned to California to become a novel-writer after he had worked as a reporter, brick-layer and a jack-of-all-trades.
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 ^ When we told Ted about our trip and passion for everything Steinbeck, he proceeded to tell us that his grandmother had actually gone to high school with Steinbeck over in Salinas and was used as a character in East of Eden .
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 .He traveled to New York City and held odd jobs while pursuing his dream of becoming a writer.^ To allow for a Sunday drive through New York City (we were hoping for less traffic), we stopped in Atlantic City for the night.
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 ^ We meet George and Lennie as they are travelling to their new job.
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 ^ He travelled to New York and worked as a reporter, unfortunately he was fired.
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 .When he failed to get his work published, he returned to California and worked for a time in 1928 as a tour guide and caretaker at the fish hatchery in Tahoe City, where he would meet tourist Carol Henning, his future first wife.^ He returned to California, working for awhile as a caretaker of a Lake Tahoe estate, and in 1929, published his first novel, Cup of Gold .

 ^ Candy eventually joins them, entering Crooks's room for the first time in all of the years they have worked together.

 ^ Sometimes, at roadside camps, people would learn that work in California was plenty but so were the multitudes of people looking for it.
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 [4][6][7]. Steinbeck and Henning were married in January, 1930.
.Steinbeck lived most of the years of the great depression and his marriage to Carol in a cottage in Pacific Grove, California on the Monterey Peninsula that was owned by his father.^ In California he lived the most of his life.
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 ^ A very nice copy of Steinbeck's first major success, and the first of his novels set in California's Monterey peninsula, an episodic tale of Mexican-Americans.
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 ^ He discovers that because of the Great Depression everybody has fled to the West coast, specifically to California.
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 .The elder Steinbeck supplied him with the lodging for free, with paper for his manuscripts, and critical loans beginning at the end of 1928 which allowed Steinbeck to give up a punishing warehouse job in San Francisco, and focus on his craft.^ In the end, Steinbeck does a better job of not bashing the reader over the skull with his themes, and he managed to contain his desire to describe every grain of sand.
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 ^ Steinbeck bio, it appears Steinbeck’s wife, Elaine, actually rode with him from Seattle down to San Francisco.
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 ^ At the time, Steinbeck was in isolation when he took a job as the winter caretaker of a lodge in Lake Tahoe.
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 [7]
.After the publication of his Monterey novel Tortilla Flat in 1935, his first clear novelistic success, the Steinbecks emerged from relative poverty and built a summer ranch-home in Los Gatos.^ A very nice copy of Steinbeck's first major success, and the first of his novels set in California's Monterey peninsula, an episodic tale of Mexican-Americans.
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 ^ His fourth novel, Tortilla Flat, was the first to gain him any critical or financial recognition; it was followed by In Dubious Battle, an account of a California strike, and his well-known moral fable Of Mice and Men, which was adapted into a successful stage play and movie.
  • Biography: John Steinbeck - An American Writer (2000) - Synopsis - MSN Movies 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]

 ^ From his first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, about the plight of Mexican-Americans, to The Grapes of Wrath, the unforgetable story of the migrant Joads, Steinbeck is concerned with ordinary workers at the mercy of absentee landlords and greed-driven big business.
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 .In 1940, Steinbeck went on a voyage around the Gulf of California with his influential friend Ed Ricketts, to collect biological specimens.^ The text is by Steinbeck and the photos are by Ed Ricketts.
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 ^ Born in 1902, John Steinbeck remained in the Salinas Valley area of California until he went to Stanford in 1919, where he took writing courses.

 ^ Steinbeck was born in rural California, went to Stanford, and spent most of his life in California.
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 .The Log from the Sea of Cortez describes his experiences.^ "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure.
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 ^ John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, The Long Valley, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Library of America) by John Steinbeck .
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 .Although Carol accompanied Steinbeck on the trip, their marriage was beginning to suffer by this time, and would effectively end in 1941, even as Steinbeck worked on the manuscript for the book.^ Like Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck wrote other books about men that work on farms, such as Tortilla Flat and The Grapes of Wrath.
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 ^ All of this would be enough to make a wonderful book, but there's the added benefit of Steinbeck's writing style.
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 ^ Interesting, but not Insightful I found this work diary of Steinbeck to be far less informative than I had imagined it would be.
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 [7]
.In 1943, Steinbeck filed for divorce against Carol and married Gwyndolyn "Gwyn" Conger, with whom he had two children - Thomas ("Thom") Myles Steinbeck in 1944 and John Steinbeck IV (1946–1991).^ The hopelessness is also used by John Steinbeck to protest against the treatment of the disabled during the Great Depression.
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 ^ John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family.
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 ^ John Steinbeck's great American modern novel tells a timeless and universal story of man's struggle against injustice and inhumanity.
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 .Steinbeck and his second wife divorced in 1948. In December 1950, Steinbeck married stage-manager Elaine Scott within a week of the finalizing of her divorce from actor Zachary Scott.^ Elaine Steinbeck was already a fan of Steppenwolf when the group first approached her with the idea of adapting The Grapes of Wrath; her background was in the theater (a New York stage manager in the forties, she was also previously married to the stage and screen actor Zachary Scott), and she had seen the troupe's celebrated works - True West, Balm in Gilead - when it traveled.
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 ^ We hope Steinbeck and his wife Elaine (who was apparently still with him) would forgive us our small diversion from his route (we haven’t had many).
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 ^ Steinbeck bio, it appears Steinbeck’s wife, Elaine, actually rode with him from Seattle down to San Francisco.
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 This marriage lasted until Steinbeck's death in 1968.[8]
.In 1948, Steinbeck toured the Soviet Union with renowned photographer Robert Capa.^ The reprint and the letter are the reason for this lengthy epistle to Pearson: these were sent as mementos to those he met while on a tour of the Soviet Union in lieu of personal correspondence, which Steinbeck admits here he was unable to maintain.
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 ^ The second letter, which Pearson is instructed to mark "personal", proposes a U.S. visit by Russian writers which Steinbeck and Edward Albee developed after returning from the Soviet tour.
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 They visited Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Batumi and Stalingrad. His book about their experiences, A Russian Journal, was illustrated with Capa's photos. That year he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Steinbeck's gravestone at Salinas cemetery
In 1966, Steinbeck traveled to Tel Aviv to visit the site of Mount Hope, a farm community established in Israel by his grandfather, whose brother, Friedrich Grosssteinbeck, was murdered by Arab marauders on January 11, 1858.[9]
.John Steinbeck died in New York City on December 20, 1968 of heart disease and congestive heart failure.^ "Them children died of heart failure," he said.
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 ^ Just after completion of this article, a new work about the Grapes of Wrath post-publication controversy has appeared: Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008).
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 ^ He left California for the first time at age 25, when he went to New York City as a journalist and sometime laborer.

 He was 66, and had been a life-long smoker. An autopsy showed nearly complete occlusion of the main coronary arteries.[8]
In accordance with his wishes, his body was cremated and an urn containing his ashes was interred at his family gravesite at Garden of Memories Memorial Park in Salinas. His ashes were placed with those of the Hamiltons (grandparents). .His third wife, Elaine, was buried with him in 2004.[10] He had earlier written to his doctor that he felt deeply "in his flesh" that he would not survive his physical death, and that the biological end of his life was the final end to it.^ As his third- wife the book's co- editorElaine Steinbeck makes clear in her introduction Steinbeck was a life- long letter-writer.
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 ^ We hope Steinbeck and his wife Elaine (who was apparently still with him) would forgive us our small diversion from his route (we haven’t had many).
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 ^ This hit home for many in true life and in the film, some would not survive the trip there because of the great void it placed in there life.
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 [10]

Literary career

.Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold, published in 1929, is based on the life and death of privateer Henry Morgan.^ Steinbeck's first book, a novelized version of the life of the pirate Henry Morgan.
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 ^ A very nice copy of Steinbeck's first major success, and the first of his novels set in California's Monterey peninsula, an episodic tale of Mexican-Americans.
  • steinbeck john - AbeBooks 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.abebooks.com [Source type: General]

 ^ Posted: June 06, 2005 Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story...
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 .It centers on Morgan's assault and sacking of the city of Panama, sometimes referred to as the 'Cup of Gold', and on the woman, fairer than the sun, who was said to be found there.^ There was a towpath, besides St. Bartholomew’s, it was said on a hot day that the smell of the dead found its way through the stones of the wall beside the path.

 ^ Okie migrant income hovered around and sometimes descended below bare subsistence levels, and that was for the "lucky ones" who found employment.
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 ^ And he said, "John, there's a woman so great with love she scares me.
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 [8]
.After Cup of Gold, between 1931 and 1933 Steinbeck produced three shorter works.^ He returned to California, working for awhile as a caretaker of a Lake Tahoe estate, and in 1929, published his first novel, Cup of Gold .

 ^ The present work is a longer novel, 600 pages, which covers three generations of two families split between Connecticut and the Salinas area of northern California.
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 .The Pastures of Heaven, published in 1932, comprised twelve interconnected stories about a valley near Monterey, that was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway American Indian slaves.^ This fictional story expresses the loneliness, friendship, and American dreams sought by many in the Salinas Valley of California.
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 ^ First Separate Edition (originally published in The Pastures of Heaven, 1932); Goldstone A2f; noting that the paper supply allowed only 370 copies to be printed.
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 ^ The story, set in depression era America, is about two brothers and their quest for the American dream.
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 .In 1933 Steinbeck published The Red Pony, a 100-page, four-chapter story weaving in memories of Steinbeck's childhood.^ Vignette of a pony in red repeated from the title-page on front cover, with date in red roman numerals below.
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 ^ John Steinbeck, the author of the novel grew up by the Salinas River and the setting of the story is that of his childhood memories.
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 ^ It has excellent prose and good drama but the story becomes a bit predictable for the last 100 pages of the 600 pages.
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 [8] .To a God Unknown follows the life of a homesteader and his family in California, depicting a character with a primal and pagan worship of the land he works.^ Starting off in Oklahoma and ending up in California, the Joad family represented one of many families forced off of their land and given hope of work in California.
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 ^ Both mothers convey a strong sense of determination to work hard in order to keep their families united towards the goal of a better life.
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 ^ In the movie the Joad family had moved to California in hopes of finding work.
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.Steinbeck achieved his first critical success with the novel Tortilla Flat (1935), which won the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal.^ A very nice copy of Steinbeck's first major success, and the first of his novels set in California's Monterey peninsula, an episodic tale of Mexican-Americans.
  • steinbeck john - AbeBooks 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.abebooks.com [Source type: General]

 ^ His fourth novel, Tortilla Flat, was the first to gain him any critical or financial recognition; it was followed by In Dubious Battle, an account of a California strike, and his well-known moral fable Of Mice and Men, which was adapted into a successful stage play and movie.
  • Biography: John Steinbeck - An American Writer (2000) - Synopsis - MSN Movies 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]

 ^ From his first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, about the plight of Mexican-Americans, to The Grapes of Wrath, the unforgetable story of the migrant Joads, Steinbeck is concerned with ordinary workers at the mercy of absentee landlords and greed-driven big business.
  • Of Mice and Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.nibis.de [Source type: General]

 [8] .The book portrays the adventures of a group of classless and usually homeless young men in Monterey after World War I, just before U.S. prohibition.^ He worked as a foreign correspondent during World War II and during the Vietnam War, and later in his career he wrote East of Eden and a travel book/memoir, Travels with Charley.
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 ^ In Of Mice and Men, George is left without a companion, as just another ranch worker, and is further away from his dream than he ever was before.
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 ^ A GROUP OF MEN are squatting in a half-circle, the usual pattern for conversation, but they are silent now as their eyes fix on the man approaching.
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 .The characters, who are portrayed in ironic comparison to mythic knights on a quest, reject nearly all the standard mores of American society in enjoyment of a dissolute life centered around wine, lust, camaraderie and petty theft.^ Can I guess that the issue was more to do with who was managing the site and less about the design and standards .

 ^ Steinbeck’s riveting characters show a glimpse into the life of those who lived through the time period.
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 ^ Perhaps , Steinbeck suggests through the character of Ma Joad, a return to a matriarchal society was what Americans needed to do in order to respond to the economic situation of the 1930s.

 .The book was made into the 1942 film Tortilla Flat, starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield, a friend of Steinbeck's.^ Steinbeck's vision of the disenfranchised is curiously apolitical -whether he writes about the good-hearted bums of Cannery Row (made into a film in 1982 starring Debra Winger and Nick Nolte), the paisanos of Tortilla Flat or the lost wanderers with a secret dream of paradise in The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.
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 ^ Love Steinbeck, can't stand this book I thoroughly enjoy many of John Steinbeck's books.
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 ^ The film directed by John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath which was derived from John Steinbecks book is an accurate portrayal of the events that were happening to the migrant workers and the tenant farmers during the Great Depression.
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.Steinbeck began to write a series of "California novels" and Dust Bowl fiction, set among common people during the Great Depression.^ The Dust bowl began in the 1930s.
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 ^ The book is set in southern California at the time of the Great depression.
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 ^ Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story follows an Oklahoma family's escape from the dust bowl to join the migration to California's fruit harvest.
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 .These included In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.^ John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) by John Steinbeck .
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 ^ The Department of History at The Ohio State University is proud to host and support these web pages for CATCOs production of The Grapes of Wrath .

 ^ Sometimes these were inserted whole-cloth into The Grapes of Wrath, but more often they were reconfigured or "built-out" to serve the creative purposes of the novel.
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 .Of Mice and Men, about the dreams of a pair of migrant laborers working the California soil, was critically acclaimed.^ Set in sunny California - Salinas, during the Great Depression, "Of Mice and Men" is a story of friendship, dreams and loneliness.
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 ^ "Of mice and Men" shows how life was hard for the migrant workers of the 1930's.
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 ^ Most of the characters in Of Mice and Men admit, at one point or another, to dreaming of a different life.

 [8]
The stage adaptation of Of Mice and Men was a hit, starring Broderick Crawford as the mentally child-like but physically powerful itinerant farmhand "Lennie," and Wallace Ford as Lennie's companion, "George." However, Steinbeck refused to travel from his home in California to attend any performance of the play during its New York run, telling Kaufman that the play as it existed in his own mind was "perfect" and that anything presented on stage would only be a disappointment. .Steinbeck would write two more stage plays (The Moon Is Down and Burning Bright).^ All of this would be enough to make a wonderful book, but there's the added benefit of Steinbeck's writing style.
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 ^ Steinbeck continues with a mention of the play version of The Moon Is Down, which had recently opened: "The play opened in Baltimore and it was pretty bad.
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 ^ "When Gary was playing in Grapes of Wrath", she recalls in her Texas accent, "he would come up to the apartment and go in the room where John used to write, look at his books."
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Of Mice and Men was rapidly adapted into a 1939 Hollywood film, in which Lon Chaney, Jr. (who had portrayed the role in the Los Angeles production of the play) was cast as Lennie and Burgess Meredith as "George."[11] Steinbeck followed this wave of success with The Grapes of Wrath (1939), based on newspaper articles he had written in San Francisco. .The novel would be considered by many to be his finest work.^ Many families went to California thinking they would find work but they were denied because job positions were already filled.
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 ^ The very fact that there are so many facets to this novel means I would have to say quite simply that it is an extraordinary work of art.
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 ^ To answer some of the typical questions that surround this novel, yes, for me I would deem this work to be amongst the classics.
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 .It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, even as it was made into a notable film directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who was nominated for an Academy Award for the part.^ Henry Fonda stars.
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 ^ He won an Academy Award nomination for best story in 1944.
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 ^ Basis for the John Ford film featuring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad.
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.The success of The Grapes of Wrath was not free of controversy, as Steinbeck's liberal political views, portrayal of the negative side of capitalism, and mythical reinterpretation of the historical events of the Dust Bowl migrations led to backlash against the author, especially close to home.^ The Grapes of Wrath Back home in the schoolhouse, it was.
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 ^ Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story follows an Oklahoma family's escape from the dust bowl to join the migration to California's fruit harvest.
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 ^ A stage presentation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," about the hardships of the Joad family and their flight from Oklahoma's dustbowl to California.
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 [12] In fact, claiming the book was both obscene and misrepresented conditions in the county, the Kern County Board of Supervisors banned the book from the county's public schools and libraries in August 1939. This ban lasted until January 1941.[13]
.Of the controversy, Steinbeck wrote, "The vilification of me out here from the large landowners and bankers is pretty bad.^ Steinbeck continues with a mention of the play version of The Moon Is Down, which had recently opened: "The play opened in Baltimore and it was pretty bad.
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 ^ And for the biography of a major writer whose work remains controversial it's a tremendous failing in an otherwise fine book Want to know Steinbeck?Start here!
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 ^ Steinbeck vividly describes a large heron bending to snatch an unsuspecting snake out of the water, then waiting as another swims in its direction.

 The latest is a rumor started by them that the Okies hate me and have threatened to kill me for lying about them. I'm frightened at the rolling might of this damned thing. It is completely out of hand; I mean a kind of hysteria about the book is growing that is not healthy."
The film versions of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men (by two different movie studios) were in production simultaneously, allowing Steinbeck to spend a full day on the set of The Grapes of Wrath and the next day on the set of Of Mice and Men.

Ed Ricketts

Ed Ricketts
.In the 1930s and 1940s, Ed Ricketts strongly influenced Steinbeck's writing.^ Two important individuals who influenced Steinbeck in the 1930s were Pare Lorentz, noted above, and Tom Collins, manager of a government migrant camp.

 ^ Because of all that has influenced his genius, Steinbeck’s take on this time shows through his writing, above and beyond meaningless words.
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 .Steinbeck frequently took small trips with Ricketts along the California coast to collect biological specimens which Ricketts sold for a living and give Steinbeck time off from his writing.^ For a time at least, as Steinbeck noted when writing it, Tom actually "lived it."
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 ^ "Come a time when I could a did somepin an' took the big sin off my soul," Uncle John said sadly.
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 ^ November 9th, 2007 Steinbeck’s descriptions of redwoods in southern Oregon and northern California are classic (with lines like “ambassadors from another time”).
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 [10] .Their joint book about a collecting expedition to the Gulf of California in 1940, which was part travelogue and part natural history, published just as the U.S. entered World War II, never found an audience and did not sell well.^ He worked as a foreign correspondent during World War II and during the Vietnam War, and later in his career he wrote East of Eden and a travel book/memoir, Travels with Charley.
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 ^ Despite the tragic atmosphere of this novel, I very much enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it to young adults as well as an older audience.
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 ^ Those who did cross over into California found that the available labor pool was vastly disproportionate to the number of job openings that could be filled.
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 [10] .However, in 1951, Steinbeck republished the narrative portion of the book as The Log from the Sea of Cortez, under his name only (though Ricketts had written some of it).^ Robert DeMott, introduction to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath as republished by Penguin Books in 2006, p.
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 ^ The only female character who has an active role in the book is Curley's wife, who, significantly, Steinbeck never names, and identifies only in reference to her husband.

 ^ Unknown to Goldstone, this is one of apparently only six copies with Steinbeck's name in the colophon.
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 This work remains in print today.[14]
.Ricketts was Steinbeck's model for the character of "Doc" in Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954), "Friend Ed" in Burning Bright, and characters in In Dubious Battle (1936) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939).^ Sweet Thursday (1954) marks Steinbeck's return, in a mood of sometimes frothy comedy, to the characters and milieu of his earlier Cannery Row .
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 ^ The text is by Steinbeck and the photos are by Ed Ricketts.
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 ^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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 .Ecological themes recur in Steinbeck's novels of the period.^ The movie The Grapes of Wrath (influenced by John Steinbecks successful novel written in 1939,) directed in 1940 by John Ford, is a most accurate portrayal of the time period.
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 ^ Steinbecks novel is more than an intriguing period piece.

 ^ I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick.” A major theme in Steinbeck’s novell Of Mice and Men is loneliness.
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 [15]
.Steinbeck's close relations with Ricketts ended in 1941 when Steinbeck moved away from Pacific Grove and split with his wife Carol.^ After finding Ed Ricketts’ lab and several other sites covered in Steinbeck’s fiction and non-fiction (we think the bar he mentioned in Travels with Charley was leveled for a hotel), we headed to adjacent Pacific Grove.
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 ^ Steinbeck's intense way of describing and presenting the characters help create a familiarity with the reader which enabled us to relate closely with the characters.
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 ^ Carol, of course, was the author's wife, who originated the title for Steinbeck.
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 [10] Ricketts' biographer Eric Enno Tamm notes that, except for East of Eden (1952), Steinbeck's writing declined after Ricketts' untimely death in 1948.[16]

World War II

.His novel The Moon is Down (1942), about the Socrates-inspired spirit of resistance in a Nazi-occupied village in northern Europe, was made into a film almost immediately.^ Steinbeck stated that this novel was over thirty-five years in the making and, despite initially being poorly received by critics, it became a best seller almost immediately.
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 ^ A little color came into the eastern sky, and almost immediately the lonely dawn light crept over the land.
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 ^ The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders.
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 .It was presumed that the unnamed country of the novel was Norway, and in 1945 Steinbeck received the Haakon VII Medal of freedom for his literary contributions to the Norwegian resistance movement.^ Steinbeck stated that this novel was over thirty-five years in the making and, despite initially being poorly received by critics, it became a best seller almost immediately.
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 ^ "The Moon Is Down" (1942) reflects Steinbeck's impressions upon hearing the testimony of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe.Originally conceived as a play set in the U.S. but revised as a novel set in an unnamed Scandinavian country, it describes the struggle of a group of underground fighters in an occupied society.Widely read in occupied Europe, in 1946 it won Norway's King Haakon Liberty Cross.
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 ^ It's almost as ifshe's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters,more than most literary creations, do go on.
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.In 1943, Steinbeck served as a WW II war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune and worked with the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA).^ He worked as a foreign correspondent during World War II and during the Vietnam War, and later in his career he wrote East of Eden and a travel book/memoir, Travels with Charley.
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 ^ (Why Steinbecks Okies Speak to Us Today, New York Times , 18 March 1990, Arts & Leisure section, p.

 ^ The New Deal did not bring the economy out of the Depression; only mobilization for World War II did that.

 [17] It was at that time he became friends with Will Lang Jr. of Time/Life magazine. During the war, Steinbeck accompanied the commando raids of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s Beach Jumpers program, which launched small-unit diversion operations against German-held islands in the Mediterranean. .Some of his writings from this period were incorporated in the documentary Once There Was A War (1958).^ Pare Lorentz, who was a friend of Steinbecks, and who hired Steinbeck to work on some of his films, reigns as the most important documentary filmmaker of the period.
.Steinbeck returned from the war with a number of wounds from shapnel and some psychological trauma.^ Steinbeck's second article in his nonfiction "Harvest Gypsies" series contains grim, graphic descriptions of squatter camp conditions and psychological trauma.
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 He treated himself, as ever, by writing. .He wrote Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), and the film A Medal for Benny (1945) with screenwriter Jack Wagner about paisanos from Tortilla Flat going to war.^ A clip about the rigors of filming Lifeboat.
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 ^ Experts talk about author John Steinbeck's involvement in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
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 ^ Actors and experts discuss the sets for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
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 He later requested that his name be removed from the credits of Lifeboat because he believed the final version of the film had racist undertones. In 1945, suffering from homesickness for his Pacific Grove/Monterey life of the 1930's, he wrote Cannery Row (1945) which became so famous that Ocean View Avenue in Monterey, the location of the book, was eventually renamed Cannery Row in 1958.
.After the end of the war, he wrote The Pearl (1947), already knowing it would be filmed.^ Steinbeck wrote that, “My own journey started before I left, and was over before I returned.” We felt the same–once we were back in the south we know and love, we were already home.
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 The story first appeared in the December 1945 issue of Woman's Home Companion magazine as "The Pearl of the World." It was illustrated by John Alan Maxwell. The novel is an imaginative telling of a story which Steinbeck had heard in La Paz in 1940, as related in The Log From the Sea of Cortez, which he described in Chapter 11 as being "so much like a parable that it almost can't be". Steinbeck traveled to Mexico for the filming with Wagner who helped with the script; on this trip he would be inspired by the story of Emiliano Zapata, and subsequently wrote a film script (Viva Zapata!) directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn.

New York

.After his divorce from Gwyndolyn Conger and the death of Ed Ricketts (when his car was hit by a train in 1948), Steinbeck married for the last time in 1950. Soon after, he began work on East of Eden (1952), which he considered his best work.^ The text is by Steinbeck and the photos are by Ed Ricketts.
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 ^ Perhaps it is best if Lennie’s last, simple thoughts were of George telling him of the land they would own and work together.
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 ^ This is not Steinbeck's best work (although I persist in viewing "Sweet Thursday" as under-valued), but still worth every penny.
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.In 1952, John Steinbeck appeared as the on-screen narrator of 20th Century Fox's film, O. Henry's Full House.^ Full Synopsis Biography: Henry Ford - Tin Lizzy Tycoon One of the most influential and controversial figures of the 20th century, Henry...
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 ^ On the other hand, investigators for Darrell Zanuck, who produced the John Ford film of the novel, found conditions to be worse than Steinbeck had depicted.

 ^ Editorial Review Book Description John Steinbeck consistently appears on class reading lists across the U.S., and his work has influenced generations.
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 .Although Steinbeck later admitted he was uncomfortable before the camera, he provided interesting introductions to several filmed adaptations of short stories by the legendary writer O. Henry.^ The new film adaptation, directed by Gary Sinise and written by Horton Foote, remains faithful in almost every way to the stark Steinbeck tale.
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 ^ Steinbeck wrote that his trip ended near Abingdon and he rushed through the rest of his drive…and the book, which ended very short three pages later.
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 ^ Here's a comprehensive biography which includes critical commentary on his novels, short stories, nonfiction and other works, discussing major themes, characters, film adaptations, and more.
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 .About the same time, Steinbeck recorded readings of several of his short stories for Columbia Records; despite some stiffness, the recordings provide a record of Steinbeck's deep, resonant voice.^ Read the script several times .

 ^ We really enjoyed Amarillo, but a cold front had moved in (this actually happened to Steinbeck at the same time as well, 47 years ago) and it was time to move on.
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 ^ Steinbeck felt a deep empathy with the hobos and drifters, the field hands and destitute families of the Depression era; their stories still resonate today.
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.Following the success of Viva Zapata!, Steinbeck collaborated with Kazan on East of Eden, James Dean's film debut.^ Along with writing the screenplay for the Kazan/Brando film Viva Zapata, 4 of his books (The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden) were turned into major motion pictures.
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 ^ Though we did find a house called “East of Eden,” which was definitely not Steinbeck’s former house, we failed to find what we were certain was the right one.
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 ^ Meanwhile, in Maine, we’ve really enjoyed following Steinbeck’s route “Down East” right up the coast.
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Rocinante, camper truck in which Steinbeck traveled across the United States in 1960
.Travels with Charley (subtitle: In Search of America) is a travelogue of his 1960 road trip with his poodle Charley.^ His Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) revealed a man somewhat unsettled with the changes occurring in America, particularly the loss of community that he had grown up with in Monterey.

 ^ During our trip and lots of Steinbeck-oriented research and reading, I did find another “final” chapter for “Travels with Charley” about Kennedy’s inauguration.
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 ^ Finally, the trip to California in The Grapes of Wrath illustrated the popular use of Highway 66 as a main route of travel and the direct road to California.
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 .Steinbeck bemoans his lost youth and roots, while dispensing both criticism and praise for America.^ Others praised Steinbeck for being the conscience of America.

 .According to Steinbeck's son Thom, Steinbeck went on the trip because he knew he was dying and wanted to see the country one last time.^ However, the windmill did have a plaque honoring Steinbeck’s time in Sag Harbor (see picture).
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 ^ And the people who employed them didnt care about them, and paid them as little as they wanted, because they knew that if they didnt accept it, someone else would.
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 ^ One family is able to show the lives of many families that had to migrate and see their lands disappear because they were no longer able to maintain themselves nor their families.
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 [18]
.Steinbeck's last novel, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), examines moral decline in America.^ In his remaining 16 years, Steinbeck published only three more works of fiction - besides "Sweet Thursday," the satirical "Short Reign of Pippin IV" (1957) and 1961's swan-song on materialism, "The Winter of Our Discontent."
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 ^ What Steinbeck did and what he should get credit for is write the most touching and truthful novel ever on America.
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 ^ Indeed, this novel represented Steinbecks third attempt to write the story of the migrants in Depression America.

 .The protagonist Ethan grows discontented with his own moral decline and that of those around him.^ As in the film, Tom Joad, the protagonist of the movie, grows closer and closer with his family as they endure the hardships of moving and trying to survive in those days.
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 ^ Carlson: ranch hand who is the exact opposite of Slim; coarse and insensitive, Carlson does not understand the feelings of those around him .
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 [19] .The book is very different in tone from Steinbeck's amoral and ecological stance in earlier works like Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row.^ The Joads ended up working for two different companies that paid very low wages.
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 ^ George and Lennie think that they are different from other workers because they have a dream, to have their very own ranch and work for themselves, the American dream.
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 ^ But, just as Berryman enthralls despite his limitations, so Steinbeck's work rolls on, rolls over us, like the wellconstructed engine that it is.
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 It was not a critical success. .Many reviewers recognized the importance of the novel but were disappointed that it was not another Grapes of Wrath.^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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 ^ The Grapes of Wrath is a very important resource to storytelling of the lives of many people who lost their lands and thought that the west would bring them a better life.
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 ^ Over the years, many of Steinbeck's books have been brought to film, some (The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden) more successfully than others.
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 [19]
.Apparently taken aback not only by the critical reception of this novel, but also the critical outcry when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, Steinbeck attempted to publish no more fiction in the next six years before his death.^ In 1962 John Steinbeck got the Nobel-prize for literature...
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 ^ In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize.

 ^ He won the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Nobel Prize

.In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature for his “realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception.” On the day of the announcement (Oct.^ In 1962 John Steinbeck got the Nobel-prize for literature...
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 ^ Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1962.
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 .25) when he was asked by a reporter at a press conference given by his publisher, if he thought he deserved the Nobel, he said: "Frankly, no."^ And as each boy asked Rose of Sharon as partner, Ma said, "No, she ain't well."
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 ^ He also had a good relationship with his editor and publisher (helping the latter out of bankruptcy when he agreed to go to Viking Press, but only if his old publisher was given a job).

 ^ I won't ask you no questions, if you done something bad " "I'd do what I done again," said Joad.
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 [7] In his acceptance speech later in the year in Stockholm, he said:
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the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love.^ He was a man of great courage.

 ^ Ma Joad : A kind, loving, and strong woman who is the beating heart of the Joad family, pumping courage, hope, and moral values into the veins of each family member.

 ^ "It's about companionship and compassion," says Sinise, "and it's one of the great love stories of all time ."
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 In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
—Steinbeck Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech[20]
Although modest about his own talent as a writer, Steinbeck talked openly of his own admiration of certain writers: in 1953, he wrote in humor that he considered cartoonist Al Capp "possibly the best writer in the world today." [21]. .However, at his own first Nobel Prize press conference he was asked his favorite authors and works and replied: "Hemingway's short stories and nearly everything Faulkner wrote."^ The first job they worked seemed very shady and they were not allowed to ask questions about their job.
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 ^ Clearly the author is as well, asking Moonrat to work behind her boss's back on a change that had already been discussed and denied numerous times.
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 ^ However, when I was reading, the complexity of the story did not hinder my progression because everything seemed to flow.
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.In September 1964, Steinbeck was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson.^ September 18th, 2007 I’m writing this in Eastport, the easternmost town in the United States (we enjoyed a very early sunrise this morning).
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 ^ Full Synopsis Biography: Betty Ford - One Day at a Time Many of the wives of Presidents of the United States have used their special...
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 ^ He died in 1968, within a year of returning from a trip to Vietnam (which President Lyndon B. Johnson had asked him to make).

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In 1967, at the behest of Newsday magazine, Steinbeck went to Vietnam to report on the war there. Thinking of the Vietnam War as a heroic venture, he was considered a hawk for his position on that war. .His sons both served in Vietnam prior to his death, and Steinbeck visited one son in the battlefield (at one point being allowed to man a machine-gun watch position at night at a firebase, while his son and other members of his platoon slept).^ One man drives, the other talks.
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 ^ Later that night, while George and most of the other ranch hands are visiting a whorehouse, the outcast Lennie enters the room of the other outcast, Crooks.
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 ^ And when Carlson's gun goes off, Lennie is the only other man not inside the bunk house, Steinbeck having placed him outside with the dog, away from the other men, his gun shot saved for the novel's end .

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After Steinbeck's death, his incomplete novel based on the King Arthur legends of Malory and others, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, was finally published in 1976.
On Feb. .27, 1979, on what would have been his 77th birthday, he was honored by being placed on a U.S. postage stamp.^ Had he not been fifty years old, and so one of the natural rulers of the family, Uncle John would have preferred not to sit in the honor place beside the driver.
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Legacy

National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California
.The day after Steinbeck's death in New York City, reviewer Charles Poore wrote in the New York Times: "John Steinbeck's first great book was his last great book.^ John Steinbeck wrote this book while all of the labor injustice was happening.
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 ^ By Lisa J. Curtis Food critic Arthur Schwartz (pictured) will discuss and sign copies of his new book "Arthur Schwartz’s New York City Food" (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $45) at the Brooklyn Museum on Dec.
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 ^ Das vorausgegangene Exzerpt ist einem Artikel entnommen, der zuerst veröffentlicht wurde in: The New York Times, 142 C5, October 2, 1992.
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 .But Good Lord, what a book that was and is: The Grapes of Wrath."^ I was then forced to sit through the movie version of Grapes of Wrath, and was re-assigned to book to read by a crazy teacher I had at the age of 17.
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 ^ I got a han'bill 258 The Grapes of Wrath says they got good wages, an' little while ago I seen a thing in the paper says they need folks to pick fruit."
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 ^ The Grapes of Wrath "We try to give a good day of work."
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 Poore noted a "preachiness" in Steinbeck's work, "as if half his literary inheritance came from the best of Mark Twain— and the other half from the worst of Cotton Mather." But he asserted that "Steinbeck didn't need the Nobel Prize— the Nobel judges needed him."
.Many of Steinbeck's works are on required reading lists in American high schools.^ Let me say that I'm SO thankful I didn't read it in high school as many have.
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 ^ Steinbeck attended Salinas High School and went on to study Marine Biology at Stanford University, but failed to finish his course.
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 ^ Steinbeck, who worried that the working-class people he wrote about weren't reading his books, was pleased.
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 .In the United Kingdom, Of Mice and Men is one of the key texts used by the examining body AQA for its English Literature GCSE.^ In one way John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (MGM) is like John Berryman's poetry: it's more powerful than, aesthetically speaking, it has a right to be.
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 ^ Full Synopsis Biography: Betty Ford - One Day at a Time Many of the wives of Presidents of the United States have used their special...
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 ^ Most of the characters in Of Mice and Men admit, at one point or another, to dreaming of a different life.

 .A study by the Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature in the United States found that Of Mice and Men was one of the ten most frequently read books in public high schools.^ I learned that she had in one of the most beautiful paragraphs I will ever read.
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 ^ I first read Of Mice and Men at an age when I was learning to read.
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 ^ Steinbeck attended Salinas High School and went on to study Marine Biology at Stanford University, but failed to finish his course.
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.At the same time, The Grapes of Wrath has been banned by school boards: In August 1939, Kern County Board of Supervisors banned the book from the county's public schools and libraries.^ Obviously, the lone book was The Grapes of Wrath.
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 ^ I recall disliking almost all required school readings up to this point (though admittedly I had skipped out on the summer reading project of "The Grapes Of Wrath").
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 ^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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 [25] It was burned in Salinas on two different occasions.[26][27] .In 2003, a school board in Mississippi banned it on the grounds of profanity.^ It was very controversial, banned in Australia in 1940; one of the most frequently banned books by school board over the years.
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 ^ Interesting fact: in the 90's the book was banned in some US schools because of "profane language, moral statement, treatment of the retarded, and the violent ending."
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 [28] .According to the American Library Association Steinbeck was one of the ten most frequently banned authors from 1990 to 2004, with Of Mice and Men ranking sixth out of 100 such books in the United States.^ An ...more The book Of Mice And Men y Steinbeck is really good written book.
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 ^ Anyways, I'll tell you one more thing I thought out; an' from a preacher it's the most unre- ligious thing, and I can't be a preacher no more because I thought it an' I believe it."
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 ^ Of Mice and Men -indeed, most of Steinbeck's work from the 30's -- speaks to the condition of these homeless, powerless and neglected people in a manner that compels us to look again at their plight in wonderment and pity.
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His books are also commonly referenced in music. .Once There Was A War, an alternative metal band from Sayreville, New Jersey, derived their name from one of his novels.^ The warmth of these people compared to the froidure of life in Baker Street made me realise there were alternatives and exciting ones at that.

 ^ Buke and Gass, a budding two-piece from Brooklyn, is one new band whose ramshackle approach continues to make me smile.
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Literary influences

.Steinbeck grew up in California's Salinas Valley, a culturally diverse place with a rich migratory and immigrant history.^ This fictional story expresses the loneliness, friendship, and American dreams sought by many in the Salinas Valley of California.
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 ^ John Steinbeck, the author of the novel grew up by the Salinas River and the setting of the story is that of his childhood memories.
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 ^ He grew up in Salinas, well off, but idealistic.
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 .This upbringing imparted a regionalistic flavor to his writing, giving many of his works a distinct sense of place.^ During this time many people were desperate for work and people moved places because of job advertisements and by word of mouth.
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 [5][8] .Salinas, Monterey and parts of the San Joaquin Valley were the setting for many of his stories.^ Setting: The setting is South of San Francisco in the Salinas Valley of California; probably during the Depression of the 1930s; three specific locations - along the banks of the Salinas River near the ranch, in the ranch bunk house, and in the barn .
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 ^ Set in sunny California - Salinas, during the Great Depression, "Of Mice and Men" is a story of friendship, dreams and loneliness.
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 ^ This fictional story expresses the loneliness, friendship, and American dreams sought by many in the Salinas Valley of California.
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 .The area is now sometimes referred to as "Steinbeck Country".[10] Most of his early work dealt with subjects familiar to him from his formative years.^ He didn't seem to concentrate when George told him that they didn't have to work when they didn't want to or they could have friends round or they could do what they wanted when they wanted, the most important thing for him was to tend the rabbits.
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 ^ I have read most of his works including the present, which is a must read for Steinbeck fans.
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 ^ Of Mice and Men is one of the most beloved of John Steinbeck's works, if not necessarily his most critically acclaimed.
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 .An exception was his first novel, Cup of Gold, which concerns the pirate Henry Morgan, whose adventures had captured Steinbeck's imagination as a child.^ He returned to California, working for awhile as a caretaker of a Lake Tahoe estate, and in 1929, published his first novel, Cup of Gold .

 ^ Steinbeck has written this novel in the hope that people would understand what happened back in his child years.
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 ^ This is a book sure to capture the attention and imagination of a wide audience, including the legions of Steinbeck fans, those who love the legendary adventures of King Arthur and his Knights, as well as the countless fans of science fiction and fantasy literature, and everyone who loves Paolini’s bestselling novels.
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.In his subsequent novels, Steinbeck found a more authentic voice by drawing upon direct memories of his life in California.^ In his subsequent novels, Steinbeck found a more authentic voice by drawing upon direct memories of his life in California.

 ^ In his subsequent and more successful novels, the author found a more authentic voice by drawing on his direct memories of life in California, and later, upon real historical conditions and events in the first half of 20th century America, which Steinbeck had experienced first-hand, as a reporter.

 ^ In his subsequent novels, John Steinbeck found a more authentic voice by drawing upon direct memories of his life in California.
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 .His childhood friend, Max Wagner, a brother of Jack Wagner and who later became a film actor, served as inspiration for The Red Pony.^ Pare Lorentz, who was a friend of Steinbecks, and who hired Steinbeck to work on some of his films, reigns as the most important documentary filmmaker of the period.

 .Later he used real American historical conditions and events in the first half of the 20th century, which he had experienced first-hand as a reporter.^ John Steinbeck was one of the major American writer of the first half of the 20th Century.
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 ^ The novel that had challenged a nations soul late in the Depression decade still resonates in American hearts and minds over a half century later.

 ^ Whether it will ultimately merit inclusion in the list of great American literary works of the first half of the 20th Century remains to be seen.

 .Steinbeck often populated his stories with struggling characters; his works examined the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.^ The story is a depiction of the hard times of the Dust Bowl as migrant workers in the 1930s.
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 ^ The story Of Mice and Men took place during the great depression.
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 ^ The lives of migrant workers during the time of the Dust Bowl were bleak and poor.
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.His later work reflected his wide range of interests, including marine biology, politics, religion, history, and mythology.^ I have read most of his works including the present, which is an interesting but not a must read for Steinbeck fans.
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 ^ On a broader level this work also provides a commentary on government, religion, and politics.
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 .One of his last published works was Travels with Charley, a travelogue of a road trip he took in 1960 to rediscover America.^ Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) was Steinbeck's last published book.
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 ^ He worked as a foreign correspondent during World War II and during the Vietnam War, and later in his career he wrote East of Eden and a travel book/memoir, Travels with Charley.
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 ^ They work at it and work at it, and at last one day they get out and away they go off somewheres.
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Cannery Row in Monterey
.Steinbeck's boyhood home, a turreted Victorian building in downtown Salinas, has been preserved and restored by the Valley Guild, a nonprofit organization.^ The story begins when Steinbeck describes the serene land in the Salinas Valley.
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 ^ Born in 1902, John Steinbeck remained in the Salinas Valley area of California until he went to Stanford in 1919, where he took writing courses.

 ^ Steinbeck sets the story in Salinas Valley, his hometown, and focuses on two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons.
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 Fixed menu lunches are served Monday through Saturday, and the house is open for tours during the summer on Sunday afternoons.[31]
.The National Steinbeck Center, two blocks away at One Main Street is the only museum in the U.S. dedicated to a single author.^ It also furthers Steinbeck's disturbing observation that those who have strength and power in the world are not the only ones responsible for oppression.

 ^ The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels.
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 ^ Steinbeck often stresses how ranchers are loners, and George and Lennie are the only ones who travel in pairs.
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 Dana Gioia (chair of the National Endowment for the Arts) told an audience at the Center, "This is really the best modern literary shrine in the country, and I've seen them all." Its Steinbeckiana includes Rocinante, the camper truck in which Steinbeck made the cross-country trip described in "Travels with Charley."
.His father's cottage on Eleventh Street in Pacific Grove, where Steinbeck wrote some of his earliest books, also survives.^ Steinbeck, who worried that the working-class people he wrote about weren't reading his books, was pleased.
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 ^ I am very very satisfied in the book, and the experience Some pretty amazing Steinbeck magic This volume contains some of the earlier works of John Steinbeck.
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 ^ Steinbeck wrote that his trip ended near Abingdon and he rushed through the rest of his drive…and the book, which ended very short three pages later.
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.In Monterey, Ed Ricketts' laboratory survives (though it is not yet open to the public) and at the corner which Steinbeck describes in Cannery Row, also the store which once belonged to Lee Chong, and the adjacent vacant lot frequented by the hobos of Cannery Row.^ The text is by Steinbeck and the photos are by Ed Ricketts.
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 ^ This included a stop at Monterey’s Cannery Row, which was made famous by Steinbeck.
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 ^ In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on.
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 .The sardine cannery next to Doc's lab closed down long ago and the site is now occupied by the Monterey Bay Aquarium.^ It’s obviously commercialized now (including condos, hotels, restaurants, shops, and the excellent Monterey Bay Aquarium), but there’s still the downtrodden sea-drenched feel that Steinbeck described so well in Cannery Row .
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 .The town has commemorated Steinbeck's work with an avenue of flags depicting characters from Cannery Row and historical plaques, and sculptured busts depicting Steinbeck and Ricketts.^ There are many things to admire about Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
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 ^ Sweet Thursday (1954) marks Steinbeck's return, in a mood of sometimes frothy comedy, to the characters and milieu of his earlier Cannery Row .
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 ^ This volume is up to LOA's usual excellent standards, and like the first two volumes in the Steinbeck series, continues covering both famous pieces like Cannery Row and East of Eden, as well as some of his less known works.
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Commemoration

.On Feb 27, 1979, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp featuring Steinbeck, starting the Postal Service’s Literary Arts series honoring American writers.^ And for the biography of a major writer whose work remains controversial it's a tremendous failing in an otherwise fine book Want to know Steinbeck?Start here!
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 ^ October 19th, 2007 Steinbeck wanted to go to Fargo because it’s often the center point of the United States along the crease of a map when you fold it.
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 ^ Steinbecks artistic achievement tapped into and embodied some significant cultural transformations that had been occurring in the United States for over a generation.

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John Steinbeck Official First Day Stamp Cover
.On December 5, 2007 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Steinbeck into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.^ November 9th, 2007 Steinbeck’s descriptions of redwoods in southern Oregon and northern California are classic (with lines like “ambassadors from another time”).
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 ^ RV guru and historian, Al Hesselbart, who showed us around the incredible RV/MH Museum and Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Indiana.
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 ^ During the drive through Oregon and into California, Steinbeck had his first mishap with Rocinante.
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 [33] His son, author Thomas Steinbeck, accepted the award on his behalf.

Political views

.Steinbeck's contacts with leftist authors, journalists, and labor union figures may have influenced his writing.^ Of mice and men was written by author John Steinbeck, the title of mice and men orientated from poem writing by Robert Burns.
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 .Steinbeck was mentored by radical writers Lincoln Steffens and his wife Ella Winter.^ As his third- wife the book's co- editorElaine Steinbeck makes clear in her introduction Steinbeck was a life- long letter-writer.
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 .Through Francis Whitaker, a member of the United States Communist Party’s John Reed Club for writers, Steinbeck met with strike organizers from the Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union.^ This friendship is written about by Jackson J. Benson in his The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer; a Biography (1984), pp.
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 ^ Permalink to Comment The Grapes of Wrath by John Ford is a movie based on the novel written by John Steinbeck which was made in order to depict the times and events going on in the United States.
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 ^ When you're done, read the Steinbeck chapter in 'Alcohol and the Writer' and Jackson Benson's books on Steinbeck.
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.Steinbeck complained publicly about government harassment.^ Steinbeck complained about the longish detour needed to get to Deerhurst, but we enjoyed the drive through Massachusetts.
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 ^ Steinbeck found it changed (complaining about the traffic, as he often did on the trip).
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 .In a 1942 letter to United States Attorney General Francis Biddle, he wrote: "Do you suppose you could ask Edgar's boys to stop stepping on my heels?^ Any of you boys seen my wife?
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 ^ What more could you ask from a movie?
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 ^ Unexpectedly Curley's wife enters the room, she disguises her need to be around people and asks "Any you boys seen Curley?"
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 They think I am an enemy alien. It is getting tiresome."[35] The FBI denied that Steinbeck was under investigation.
Steinbeck was screened by Army Intelligence Corps which found him unsuitable for an officer's commission. In later years, the left claimed he was not sufficiently committed to socialism. .In 1955, his portrayal of the American left was criticized in the Daily Worker.^ As shatteringly perfect a piece of American theater as you are likely to experience in a lifetime of trans-Atlantic travel, wrote critic Jack Tinkder in the Daily Mail .

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.In 1967, when he was sent to Vietnam to report on the war, his sympathetic portrayal of the United States Army led the New York Post to denounce him for betraying his liberal past.^ He travelled to New York and worked as a reporter, unfortunately he was fired.
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 ^ These ferries would help him (and us) avoid New York traffic (of course, we couldn‘t help thinking about Manhattan on 9/11).
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 ^ Steinbeck studied sporadically at Stanford before working in New York City as a reporter and bricklayer.
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 .Steinbeck's biographer, Jay Parini, says Steinbeck's friendship with President Lyndon B. Johnson influenced his views on Vietnam.^ He died in 1968, within a year of returning from a trip to Vietnam (which President Lyndon B. Johnson had asked him to make).

 ^ Jay Parini, John Steinbeck: A Biography (1996).

 ^ Full Synopsis Biography: Lyndon Johnson - Triumph and Tragedy Release: 1997 Biography: Lyndon Johnson -- Triumph and Tragedy is a 50-minute A&E biographical...
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 [8] Steinbeck may also have been concerned about the safety of his son serving in Vietnam.
Steinbeck was a close associate of playwright Arthur Miller. .In June 1959, Steinbeck took a personal and professional risk by standing up for him when Miller refused to name names in the House Un-American Activities Committee trials.^ When they had to leave their house, Grandpa refused to leave and the family had to intoxicate him.
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 ^ The film, who shares the title of the book, took its name from the Battle Hymn of the Republic which was the anthem of the Union forces in the American Civil war.
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 ^ The preacher took up the blocks of pork and patted on the salt while she watched him.
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 [26] .Steinbeck called the period one of the "strangest and most frightening times a government and people have ever faced."^ The people of this time faced hard economic times.
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 ^ The movie The Grapes of Wrath (influenced by John Steinbecks successful novel written in 1939,) directed in 1940 by John Ford, is a most accurate portrayal of the time period.
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 ^ It's a book about a community with a variety of smaller stories intertwined to make it one of Steinbeck's most overlooked books.
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Major works

Of Mice and Men

Main article: Of Mice and Men
.Of Mice and Men is a tragedy that was written in the form of a play in 1937. The story is about two traveling ranch workers, George and Lennie, trying to work up enough money to buy their own farm/ranch.^ Why are George and Lennie so attracted to the farm they want to buy?
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 ^ "Of Mice and Men" is a very famous story written by John Steinbeck in 1937.
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 ^ The farm is George and Lennie's American dream.
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 It encompasses themes of racism, loneliness, prejudice against the mentally ill, and the struggle for personal independence. .Along with Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and The Pearl, Of Mice and Men is one of Steinbeck's best known works.^ The Grapes of Wrath One of the squatting men spoke at last.
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 ^ Although this work does not have the complexity of some of Steinbeck's other works (East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men), this is a decent sampling of his style.
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 ^ He worked as a foreign correspondent during World War II and during the Vietnam War, and later in his career he wrote East of Eden and a travel book/memoir, Travels with Charley.
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 It was made into a movie three times, in 1939 starring Burgess Meredith, Lon .Chaney Jr., and Betty Field, in 1982 starring Randy Quaid, Robert Blake and Ted Neeley, and in 1992 starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich.^ John Steinbeck's classic novel Of Mice and Men gets its third movie treatment, having been filmed previously for the big screen in 1939 (starring Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. Robert Blake and Randy Quaid).
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 ^ Yet director, co-producer, and star Gary Sinise has delivered John Steinbeck's short novel, Of Mice and Men, to the screen fully clothed in all its quiet strength and humanity.
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 ^ Now actor/director Gary Sinise has revived Of Mice and Men for a new audience, starring himself as George and John Malkovich as Lennie.
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The Grapes of Wrath

Main article: The Grapes of Wrath
.The Grapes of Wrath was written in 1939 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. The book is set in the Great Depression and describes a family of sharecroppers, the Joads, who were driven from their land due to the dust storms of the Dust Bowl.^ The Joad family went through turmoil in The Grapes of Wrath.
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 ^ On the surface, The Grapes of Wrath is one of the worst great novels ever written.

 ^ The Grapes of Wrath was a great recreation of the hard times after the Great Depression.
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 .The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.^ The film, who shares the title of the book, took its name from the Battle Hymn of the Republic which was the anthem of the Union forces in the American Civil war.
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 ^ The title alludes to the words "grapes of wrath" in Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

 .The book was made into a film in 1940 starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford.^ Henry Fonda stars.
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 ^ The film directed by John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath which was derived from John Steinbecks book is an accurate portrayal of the events that were happening to the migrant workers and the tenant farmers during the Great Depression.
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 ^ Directed by John Ford, this picture clearly represents farming migration during the Great Depression.
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East of Eden

Main article: East of Eden
.Steinbeck deals with the nature of good and evil in this Salinas Valley saga.^ The story begins when Steinbeck describes the serene land in the Salinas Valley.
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 ^ Born in 1902, John Steinbeck remained in the Salinas Valley area of California until he went to Stanford in 1919, where he took writing courses.

 ^ Steinbeck sets the story in Salinas Valley, his hometown, and focuses on two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons.
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 .The story follows two families: the Hamiltons - based on Steinbeck's own maternal ancestry - and the Trasks, reprising stories about the Biblical Adam and his progeny.^ Steinbeck sets the story in Salinas Valley, his hometown, and focuses on two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons.
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 ^ Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story follows an Oklahoma family's escape from the dust bowl to join the migration to California's fruit harvest.
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 ^ A stage presentation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," about the hardships of the Joad family and their flight from Oklahoma's dustbowl to California.
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 The book was published in 1952.

Travels With Charley

Main article: Travels With Charley: In Search of America
.In 1960, Steinbeck bought a pickup truck and had it modified with a custom-built camper top — which was rare at the time — and drove across the United States with his faithful 'blue' poodle, Charley.^ A record of his experiences and observations as he drove around America in a pickup truck, accompanied by his standard poodle Charley, it is filled with engaging, often humorous description and comes to a powerful climax in an encounter with racist demonstrators in New Orleans.
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 ^ Permalink to Comment The Grapes of Wrath by John Ford is a movie based on the novel written by John Steinbeck which was made in order to depict the times and events going on in the United States.
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 ^ Steinbeck even put him in the rear of his truck camper, but the dog still went crazy every time a bear was nearby.
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 .Steinbeck nicknamed his truck Rocinante after Don Quixote's "noble steed". In this sometimes comical, sometimes melancholic book, Steinbeck describes what he sees from Maine to Montana to California, and from there to Texas and Louisiana and back to his home in Long Island.^ Ya see them cars back there.
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 ^ Steinbeck named his truck camper Rocinante…we call our Winnebago Seldon Scene II (a play on our favorite bluegrass band, Seldom Scene).
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 ^ Their son Tommy was just released from jail and going home to see his family after so long.
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 .The restored camper truck is on exhibit in the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas.^ Amanda Holder at the National Steinbeck Center –we couldn’t have made this trip so “Steinbeck” without her.
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 ^ Steinbeck even put him in the rear of his truck camper, but the dog still went crazy every time a bear was nearby.
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 ^ Seeing the small truck camper somehow put this big trip (both for us and Steinbeck) in perspective.
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Bibliography

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962: Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, NobelPrize.org, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/press.html, retrieved 2008-04-21 
  2. ^ French, Warren G. (1975). John Steinbeck. Twayne Publishers. pp. 20. ISBN 0805706933. 
  3. ^ St. Pierre, Brian (1983). John Steinbeck, the California years. Chronicle Books. pp. 11. ISBN 0877012814. 
  4. ^ a b National Steinbeck Centre, Biography Page, 2007
  5. ^ a b c d Introduction to John Steinbeck, The Long Valley, pages 9 - 10, John Timmerman, Penguin Publishing, 1995
  6. ^ Introduction to 'The Grapes of Wrath' Penguin edition (1192) by Rober DeMott
  7. ^ a b c d e Jackson J. Benson, The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer New York: The Viking Press, 1984. ISBN 0 14 01.4417X, pgs. 147, 915a, 915b, 133
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h John Steinbeck: A Biography, Jay Parini, Holt Publishing, 1996
  9. ^ [1]
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h Susan Shillinglaw (2006), A Journey into Steinbeck's California, Roaring Forties Press 
  11. ^ "Of Mice and Men (1939)". The Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031742/. Retrieved 2007-10-10. 
  12. ^ Steibeck backlash of his portrayal of the depression, New Criterion, Accessed 2007
  13. ^ Steinbecks works banned, Accessed 2007
  14. ^ http://www.seaofcortez.org/ A website devoted to Sea of Cortez literature, with information on Steinbeck's expedition. Accessed July 6, 2009.
  15. ^ Bruce Robison, "Mavericks on Cannery Row," American Scientist, vol. 92, no. 6 (November–December 2004, p. 1: a review of Eric Enno Tamm, Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004.
  16. ^ Bruce Robison, "Mavericks on Cannery Row," American Scientist, vol. 92, no. 6 (November–December 2004, p. 1.
  17. ^ Introduction to The Moon is Down (Penguin) published 1995, by Donald V. Coers
  18. ^ Steinbeck knew he was dying," September 13, 2006. Audio interview with Thom Steinbeck
  19. ^ a b The students companion to John Steinbeck, page 24, Cynthia Burkhead, Greenwood Press, 2002
  20. ^ Steinbeck Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
  21. ^ http://www.animationarchive.org/2008/05/biography-al-capp-2-cappital-offense_08.html
  22. ^ John Steinbeck, Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Medal of Freedom Recipients, Accessed 2007
  23. ^ See Steinbeck, A Life in Letters.
  24. ^ Books taught in Schools, Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature. Accessed 2007
  25. ^ Steinbeck Book Ban, Accessed 2007
  26. ^ a b c John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography, Jackson J. Benson , Penguin, 1990
  27. ^ The Grapes of Wrath Burnt in Salinas, National Steinbeck Centre, Accessed 2007
  28. ^ Steinbecks work banned in Mississippi 2003, American Library Association, Accessed 2007
  29. ^ Steinbeck 10 most most banned list, American Library Association, Accessed 2007
  30. ^ 100 Most Frequently banned books in the U.S., American Library Association, Accessed 2007
  31. ^ John Steinbeck's Home and Birthplace, Information Point, Accessed 2007
  32. ^ "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Gets ‘Stamp of Approval’". United States Postal Service. 2008-02-21. http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/sr08_015.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-15. 
  33. ^ Steinbeck inducted into California Hall of Fame, California Museum, Accessed 2007
  34. ^ Steinbeck and radicalism New Criterion, Accessed 2007
  35. ^ Steinbeck Political Beliefs, Smoking Gun Part 1, Accessed 2007
  36. ^ Steinbeck Political Beliefs, Smoking Gun Part 2, Accessed 2007

References

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  • DeMott, Robert and Steinbeck, Elaine A., eds.^ John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (with an introduction by Robert DeMott) (1939, 1992).

     ^ John Steinbeck, Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1928-1941 , edited by Robert DeMott (1989).

     .John Steinbeck, Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (Library of America, 1994) ISBN 978-1-88301101-7
  • DeMott, Robert and Steinbeck, Elaine A., eds.^ John Steinbeck novel.

     ^ Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story follows an Oklahoma family's escape from the dust bowl to join the migration to California's fruit harvest.
    • The Grapes of Wrath - Trailer | SPIKE 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]

     ^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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     .John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941 (Library of America, 1996) ISBN 978-1-88301115-4
  • DeMott, Robert, ed.^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ The movie Grapes of Wrath (1940) is based on the novel by John Steinbeck.
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     ^ John Steinbeck did an exceptional job with the movie The Grapes of Wrath.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     .John Steinbeck, Novels 1942-1952 (Library of America, 2002) ISBN 978-1-93108207-5
  • DeMott, Robert and Railsback, Brian, eds.^ John Steinbeck novel.

     ^ Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The .
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     ^ Posted: June 06, 2005 Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story...
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     .John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie and later novels, 1947-1962 (Library of America, 2007) ISBN 978-1-59853-004-9
  • Benson, Jackson J., ed.^ John Steinbeck novel.

     ^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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     ^ His Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) revealed a man somewhat unsettled with the changes occurring in America, particularly the loss of community that he had grown up with in Monterey.

     .The Short Novels Of John Steinbeck: Critical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism.^ The Grapes of Wrath (based on John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath written in 1939) is a movie by John Ford.
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     ^ John Steinbeck novel.

     ^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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     .Durham: Duke UP, 1990. PS3537 .T3234 Z8666
  • Davis, Robert C. The Grapes of Wrath: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. PS3537 .T3234 G734
  • French, Warren.^ The Grapes of Wrath He looked up at the wrinkled face and the burning eyes.
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     ^ He The Grapes of Wrath 37 picked up his coat roll and tightened it snugly about his shoes and turtle.
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     ^ The Grapes of Wrath Al said, "Come on now, let's get the mattresses up.
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     John Steinbeck's Fiction Revisited. .NY: Twayne, 1994.
  • Hughes, R. S. John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction.^ As a suggestion, do not buy the book alone, but rather would buy it as part of a collection such as Steinbeck's book: "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck," from Viking Press in 1953, and updated versions of that book.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ Study Notes Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck .

     ^ The Betrayal of Brotherhood in the Work of John Steinbeck (Studies in American Literature) .
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     R.S. Hughes. .Boston : Twayne, 1989. PS3537 .T3234 Z7147
  • Meyer, Michael J. The Hayashi Steinbeck Bibliography, 1982-1996. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.
  • Benson, Jackson J. Looking for Steinbeck's Ghost.^ When you're done, read the Steinbeck chapter in 'Alcohol and the Writer' and Jackson Benson's books on Steinbeck.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography by Jackson J. Benson .
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     Reno: U of Nevada P, 2002.
  • Ditsky, John. .John Steinbeck and the Critics.^ Critical Companion To John Steinbeck: .
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ Critical Companion To John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference To His Life And Work (Critical Companion) by Jeffrey Schultz, Luchen Li .
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     ^ Of Mice and Men is one of the most beloved of John Steinbeck's works, if not necessarily his most critically acclaimed.
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     .Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.
  • Heavilin, Barbara A. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: A Reference Guide.^ Through the 1967 version of the film Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck portrays the lives of average people determined to preserve their humanity in lieu of the economic and social desperation.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ The Grapes of Wrath represented Steinbecks final effort to explore the reasons behind and the possible responses to the failure of American society that the plight of the migrants reflected.

     ^ The movie The Grapes of Wrath (influenced by John Steinbecks successful novel written in 1939,) directed in 1940 by John Ford, is a most accurate portrayal of the time period.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
  • Li, Luchen. ed. .John Steinbeck: A Documentary Volume.^ Full Synopsis Biography: John Steinbeck - An American Writer Release: 2000 This edition of Biography, the long running documentary series from A&E,...
    • Biography: John Steinbeck - An American Writer (2000) - Synopsis - MSN Movies 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]

     ^ I am very very satisfied in the book, and the experience Some pretty amazing Steinbeck magic This volume contains some of the earlier works of John Steinbeck.
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     ^ This edition of Biography, the long running documentary series from A&E, explores the life of author John Steinbeck .
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     Detroit: Gale, 2005.
  • Parini, Jay,. .John Steinbeck: A Biography, , Holt Publishing, 1996.
  • Robison, Bruce, "Mavericks on Cannery Row," American Scientist, vol.^ Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America) by John Steinbeck .
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     ^ There are many things to admire about Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
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     ^ Jay Parini, John Steinbeck: A Biography (1996).

     92, no. .6 (November–December 2004, p. 1: a review of Eric Enno Tamm, Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004.
  • Steinbeck, John Steinbeck IV and Nancy (2001).^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
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     ^ Permalink to Comment Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath The movie Grapes of Wrath directed by John Ford which was based on the novel by John Steinbecks book The Grapes of Wrath.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ WMf/rf , f'f'M f/ ,/M, MS/,*/ rff'ffj'frj Also by John Steinbeck THE WINTER O F OUR DISCONTENl O N C E T II E R E \V A S A \V A R I II L S I! O R I R T I G N* OF PIPPIN IV S \\ K !
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .The Other Side of Eden: Life with John Steinbeck Prometheus Books.^ Editorial Review Book Description John Steinbeck consistently appears on class reading lists across the U.S., and his work has influenced generations.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ The Price of Modernity When John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962, many felt that this book was what reminded the Prize committee of Steinbeck's greatness.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ The Dust Bowl left many families with no other choice but to migrate and work in terrible conditions in order to provide for their families.The Grapes of Wrath which is a mimic of John Steinbecks book is an excellent presentation of the culture and economic conditions of the 1930s.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     .ISBN 1573928585
  • Tamm, Eric Enno (2005) Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell Thunder's Mouth Press.^ Posted: June 06, 2005 Description: Based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel, the story...
    • The Grapes of Wrath - Trailer | SPIKE 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.spike.com [Source type: General]

     ^ On the other hand, investigators for Darrell Zanuck, who produced the John Ford film of the novel, found conditions to be worse than Steinbeck had depicted.

     ^ This film was inspired from Johns Steinbecks 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ISBN 9781560256892.

External links

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Works by John Steinbeck
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The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love.^ Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and celebrate Man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit - for gallantry in defeat, and for courage, compassion and love."
  • The Grapes of Wrath Resource page. 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC home.pacific.net.au [Source type: General]

 ^ His work stands as testament to his commitment to "celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit."
  • Penguin Reading Guides | The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl | John Steinbeck 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC booksellers.penguin.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  • The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.greatbooks.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Penguin Reading Guides | The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl | John Steinbeck 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC booksellers.penguingroup.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Steinbeck sought "to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit."
  • 3b. Steinbeck and the Social Conscience [Beyond Books - American Literary Voices Part 2] 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC beyondbooks.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation.
.John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century.^ Steinbeck John 1902 1968 .

 ^ The moon is down Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
  • Deschutes Public Library /All Locations 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC catalog.dpls.lib.or.us [Source type: General]

 ^ A Russian journal Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
  • Deschutes Public Library /All Locations 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC catalog.dpls.lib.or.us [Source type: General]

 .A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he is best known for his novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Great Depression.^ Steinbeck's Nobel Acceptance speech He received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962.
  • Critical Thinkers :: John Steinbeck Resources 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.synaptic.bc.ca [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Nobel Prize 1962 .
  • John Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC virtualology.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The best laid plans of mice and men...
  • The best laid plans of mice and men... : Marriage, Kids and Schools - BaliPod - Interactive Indonesia Information - Page 2 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC balipod.com [Source type: General]
See also: The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent

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  • We are lonesome animals. .We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ”Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it.^ One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — ”Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Tell stories about your life.
    • Book Themes: The 1920s and 1930s 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.diddit.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say--and to feel--"Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.

     .You’re not as alone as you thought.”
    • “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
  • The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
    • “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University
  • What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world — temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy.^ You're doin' good.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You're not as alone as you thought."

     ^ You're good peeps!
    • The Sheila Variations: The Books: "The Grapes of Wrath" (John Steinbeck) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.sheilaomalley.com [Source type: General]

     .Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers.^ Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If you want to tell about somcpin off northwest, you point your nose straight south- east."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This is also true in life, many times we are faced with tough choices and even though they may be the hardest you will have to go through, you know that that is the only way.
    • Free-TermPapers.com - Of Mice And Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC free-termpapers.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.^ Thank you all very much.
    • Elia Kazan retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive - The Boston Globe 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.boston.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This is all very well and good, but what does it mean for humans?
    • Of Transgenic Mice and Men: The Rats of NIMH Meet Universal Soldier | ePluribus Media 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC discuss.epluribusmedia.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .
  • I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists.^ Log from the Sea of Cortez 1951 .
    • John Steinbeck biography, information, news, links, pictures (pics) and products (author: Of Mice and Men) 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Steinbeck's novels are pervaded with a general air of 'acceptance'--of taking someone or something in its "is-ness"--that is., his non-teleological methods, as expounded in The Log from the Sea of Cortez , which are "capable of great tenderness, of an all-embracingness which is rare otherwise."

     ^ September, The Log from the Sea of Cortez , the narrative part of the Sea of Cortez (1941) including an original essay "About Ed Ricketts," published by Viking.

     .It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
    • "...like captured fireflies" (1955); also published in America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (2003), p.^ It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
      • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
      • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

       ^ America and Americans by John Steinbeck ( 2003) .
      • Books by John Steinbeck - Bibliography and List of Works 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.biblio.com [Source type: General]

       ^ His vision has captured the spirit and the rhythm of America.
      • The Grapes of Wrath: The Values of John Ford and John Steinbeck : Film Criticism and Essays : By Tony Macklin at tonymacklin.net 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC tonymacklin.net [Source type: General]

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  • One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware.^ One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .You will never get out of this world alive.”
    • “The Mail I’ve Seen” Saturday Review (3 August 1956)
  • Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.^ "I never seen you when you lost it."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The burbs like you've never seen them.
    • "John Steinbeck Calls A Friend To See If He Finished Reading "The Grapes Of Wrath"" by Mike Drucker on CollegeHumor 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.collegehumor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ You never seen nothin' so nice."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • Quote magazine (18 June 1961)
  • The President must be greater than anyone else, but not better than anyone else.^ The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]

     ^ The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.

     ^ It was better than the book!
    • Of Mice and Men (1992) Reviews - Yahoo! Shopping 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC shopping.yahoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .We subject him and his family to close and constant scrutiny and denounce them for things that we ourselves do every day.^ We subject him and his family to close and constant scrutiny and denounce them for things that we ourselves do every day.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Every day, they find the best thing on the Internet and put it on the site.
    • "John Steinbeck Calls A Friend To See If He Finished Reading "The Grapes Of Wrath"" by Mike Drucker on CollegeHumor 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.collegehumor.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Tommy having to leave was hard thing for such a close family.
    • Writing Studies 1311 Spring 2009: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC blog.lib.umn.edu [Source type: General]

     .A Presidential slip of the tongue, a slight error in judgment — social, political, or ethical — can raise a storm of protest.^ A Presidential slip of the tongue, a slight error in judgment — social, political, or ethical — can raise a storm of protest.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .We give the President more work than a man can do, more responsibility than a man should take, more pressure than a man can bear.^ We give the President more work than a man can do, more responsibility than a man should take, more pressure than a man can bear.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Takes more nerve than I got.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ When a man's employers charge him for his work gear AND operate the stores where he must buy his food so that he often ends up OWING his employers more at the end of the week than his pitiful wages can cover, Tom Joad knows that's not just.
    • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]
    • The Grapes of Wrath (MAXnotes): Amazon.de: John Steinbeck, Lee Cusick: Englische Bücher 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.amazon.de [Source type: General]

     .We abuse him often and rarely praise him.^ We abuse him often and rarely praise him.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ George, though often short with Lennie and in the fight scene raring him on to hit Curley back, was only looking after Lennie's best interest.
    • WikiAnswers - What tone was presented in the novel 'Of Mice and Men' 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC wiki.answers.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ John Steinbeck's groundbreaking and often controversial work, with its eye on the common people, earned him both high praise and sharp criticism.
    • The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.greatbooks.org [Source type: Original source]

     .We wear him out, use him up, eat him up.^ We wear him out, use him up, eat him up.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ George sticks up for him and he even gets Lenny out of trouble.

     ^ Crooks raises up to his feet and tells her to get out, but Curley's wife calls him a nigger and threatens him.
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]

     .And with all this, Americans have a love for the President that goes beyond loyalty or party nationality; he is ours, and we exercise the right to destroy him.^ And with all this, Americans have a love for the President that goes beyond loyalty or party nationality; he is ours, and we exercise the right to destroy him.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If we could get him drunk it'd be all right.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Lennie loves all that is soft, but his immense physical strength is a source of troubles and George is needed to calm him.

     .
    • America and Americans (1966)
  • In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
  • The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world.^ Some of you talk as if sports is the most important thing in the world and if...
    • Movie review: Of Mice and Men | Deseret News 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.deseretnews.com [Source type: General]

     ^ New York Times (2 June 1969) Syntax , my lad.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ New York Times (2 June 1969) The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
    • New York Times (2 June 1969)
  • Syntax, my lad.^ And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ New York Times (2 June 1969) Syntax , my lad.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The New York Times , Charles Poore (pay site) (Apr 14, 1939) view history ▾ Common Knowledge .
    • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | LibraryThing 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.librarything.com [Source type: General]

     .It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.^ It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .
    • When asked his reaction to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address
    • Quoted by Atlantic magazine (November 1969)
  • If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces...[Merlin replies]...So it would; so it will...then the pieces will be put together again by such as destroyed it.^ When asked his reaction to John F. Kennedy ’s inaugural address Quoted by Atlantic magazine (November 1969) If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces...
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."
    • Friday Night Philosophy. - Vox 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC snowy938.vox.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ In the very next section of the essay I am quoting, Eisenstein goes on to contrast this divine creative freedom of the animator (or the Photoshop operator) with the world of Henry Fords assembly line and the rule of bankers, which he characterises as the grey, grey, grey world of those who are .
    • Of Mice and Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC rouge.com.au [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
    • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
  • Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Of Mice and Men (1937)

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  • George:Lord knows you don't need no brains to buck barley.^ Nobody don't know I got that six bucks.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Well, you don' need to pick."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It don't do no good to fool you or me.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    ("Buck" here means to work at lifting and throwing the sacks of barley.)
    .
  • Lennie:We could live offa the fatta the lan’.^ Lennie :We could live offa the fatta the lan’.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Their dream is to live of the fatta the lan.
    • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Review - "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley." 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.dooyoo.co.uk [Source type: General]

     ^ But he and Lennie have each other, and someday, as soon as they manage to save enough money, they will buy a farm together and, as Lennie puts it, “live off the fatta the lan’.” They will grow their own food, raise livestock, and keep rabbits, which Lennie will tend.
    • Of Mice and Men Summary at WikiSummaries: Free Book Summaries 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.wikisummaries.org [Source type: Original source]
    Ch. 3, p.57
    .
  • What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways.^ What the hell kind of bed you giving us, anyways.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ That's what gives a hoot in hell about us.
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ What the hell kind of website is this anyway?
    • Of Mice and Men - STEINBECK, John | Between the Covers Rare Books 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.betweenthecovers.com [Source type: General]

     .We don’t want no pants rabbits (crabs).^ I don' want no sin of waste on me.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We don't want no trouble with you.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We don’t want no pants rabbits (crabs).
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    Ch. 2, p.20
    .
  • Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.^ Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Well, that glove's full of Vaseline.
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Arrogant and insecure Constantly shows off his wife, "glove fulla vaseline" a light weight champion.
    • Of Mice and Men Summary at WikiSummaries: Free Book Summaries 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.wikisummaries.org [Source type: Original source]
    Vaseline? What the hell for?
    .Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife."^ Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife."
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Lennie tells Curley’s wife he likes to pet soft things.
    • Of Mice and Men Summary at WikiSummaries: Free Book Summaries 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.wikisummaries.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Candy tells George a secret about Curley's hand, '"You seen that glove on his left hand?… Well that glove's full of Vaseline… Well, I tell ya what, Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife."'
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]
    Ch. 2, p.29
    .
  • George:I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her.^ George calls her jail bait.
    • Of Mice and Men Summary at WikiSummaries: Free Book Summaries 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.wikisummaries.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ George :I never seen no piece of jail bait worse than her.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ No, he never went to jail for it.
    • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - An Excerpt 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC home.earthlink.net [Source type: Original source]
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     You leave her be.
    Ch.2, p.32
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  • His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.^ "His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought."
    • Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Ch.2, p.32 His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This is one of my favorite character descriptions in Of Mice and Men (see if you can figure who it is): “There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke...His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.” (It’s Slim, “the jerk line skinner”) (less) Like this review?
    • Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]
    Ch.2, p.35
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  • Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.^ Ch.2, p.35 Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Slim : A guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella.
    • Of Mice and Men (1992) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.imdb.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Candy says that guys on ranches don't listen into things they shouldn't, ' "A guy on a ranch don't never listen nor he don't ast no questions."'
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around.^ Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Some of those ways work out better than others.

     ^ In this way, Steinbeck seemed much more Hemingway-esque than he had in his earlier, and in my opinion greater, works of fiction.

     .Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.^ He's a nice sort of a guy when he ain't stinko."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He ain't a nice fella.
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    Ch.3, p.41
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  • Crooks: Books ain’t no good.^ Hell, he ain't no good to hisself.
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ "My prayers ain't no good."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Ain't it no good?
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     .A guy needs somebody – to be near him.^ "A guy needs somebody to be near him....A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody."
    • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]

     ^ A guy needs somebody – to be near him.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ A guy needs somebody - to be near him....
    • "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck (Organized by Jon K. M�ller) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.gmsys.net [Source type: Original source]

     .A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.^ "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
    • Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody.
    • "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck (Organized by Jon K. M�ller) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.gmsys.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ No Comments » “A guy goes nuts if he aint got nobody.
    • John Steinbeck | Essays & Term Papers Online 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC onlineessays.com [Source type: Original source]
    Ch.4, p.72
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  • I seen too many guys with land in their head.^ Ch.4, p.72 I seen too many guys with land in their head.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Never seen so many guys with guns.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Many migrant workers including the Joads in the film headed for the promise land, which is California at this time.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     .They never get none under their hand.^ They never get none under their hand.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Lennie loves soft, furry things, but he can't have a pet animal, for they all die under the pressure of his huge hands.
    • "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck (Organized by Jon K. M�ller) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.gmsys.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ They always shared everything which came under their ownership with each other, even if it was usually never more than a couple jugs of wine.
    • The Grapes of Wrath, Online Reading Club Reviews 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC userpage.fu-berlin.de [Source type: Original source]
    Ch.4, p.75
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  • Curleys wife:You watch your place, nigger.^ Curley, maybe you'd better stay here with your wife.
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Ch.4, p.75 Curleys wife :You watch your place, nigger.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You watch your fingers work.
    •  John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums                                                                                                     16 January 2010 6:53 UTC amb.cult.bg [Source type: Original source]

     .I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.^ The evening picked up light where it could.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I could get you strung up so easy it ain't funny."
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I could get you strung up on a tree so easy, it ain't even funny.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    Ch.4, p.80
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  • You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.^ Ch.4, p.80 You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If you wanta drive your head into a pile a broken glass, there ain't nobody can tell you different.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "You ain't been aroun' for a hell of a long time."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    Ch.6, p.101

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

These are just a few samples, for more quotes from this work see: The Grapes of Wrath
  • Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
    Ch. 14
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  • How can we live without our lives?^ How do you and I live our lives?
    • The Grim Reaper and the Grapes of Wrath (Revelation 14:1-20) | Bible.org; NET Bible, Bible Study 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC bible.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ How can we live without our lives?
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ How will we know it's us without our past?
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .How will we know it’s us without our past?
  • Prayer never brought in no side-meat.^ How will we know its us without our past?
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]

     ^ How can we live without our lives?
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ How will we know it's us without our past?
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

Cannery Row (1945)

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  • Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.^ Steinbeck describes Cannery Row, the waterfront in Monterey, California, as ‘a poem, a stink, a grating noise .
    • John Steinbeck's View of God | Alec Gilmore 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.gilco.org.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Amid the sardine canneries, vacant lots, flophouses, and honky-tonks of Monterey, California, Steinbeck assembles a colourful gallery of characters.
    • Books by John Steinbeck | Whitcoulls 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.whitcoulls.co.nz [Source type: General]

     [Opening sentence.]

East of Eden (1952)

These are just a few samples, for more quotes from this work see: East of Eden
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This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
  • Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men.^ Or do we only value human life?
    • Of mice and men and everything else « The Dark Mountain Project 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.dark-mountain.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world.
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Man continually desires only one thing: to be his own creator and his own master.
    • Dispatch from the Eurabian Front: Of Mice and Men | The Brussels Journal 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.brusselsjournal.com [Source type: Original source]

     .There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy.^ There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But there ain't no good in it."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There's no good reason for this change.
    • Of Mice and Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.nibis.de [Source type: General]

     .Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.^ Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
    And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.^ The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ And now the group was welded to one thing, one unit, so that in the dark the eyes of the people were inward, and their minds played in other times, and their sadness was like rest, like sleep.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning blows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. .It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.^ It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    .And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.^ And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world.
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]

     ^ For some reason E.B. White comes to mind: “All that I ever hope to say in books is that I love the world.” Not just people, not only human beings, but “the world”.
    • Of mice and men and everything else « The Dark Mountain Project 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.dark-mountain.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Anyways, I'll tell you one more thing I thought out; an' from a preacher it's the most unre- ligious thing, and I can't be a preacher no more because I thought it an' I believe it."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.^ And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.^ And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
    • John Steinbeck Quotes :: Quoteland :: Quotations by Author 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.quoteland.com [Source type: General]

     .This is what I am and what I am about.     I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system.^ He didn’t try to lead me in any direction but he wanted me to understand one thing.
    • Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The one thing I noted about his writing is how vividly he's described the hot, muggy days in the souther part of America.
    • The Grapes of Wrath - Literature Network Forums 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.online-literature.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     .Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts.^ Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The one thing I hate to do more than anything is to kill things.
    • Waiter Rant » Blog Archive » Of Mice and Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC waiterrant.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If there was to be talk of darkening skies, one thing was for sure, Patience would face the fiasco on a full belly.

     If the glory can be killed, we are lost.
    Part 1, Ch. 13
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  • Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way.^ Noah said slowly, "Maybe if you got them side-boards all true on, we could load up this stuff.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He said he’d move there if Montana had a sea…and we are feeling the same way as we get ready to head into Idaho later today.
    • Travels with Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC lynnseldon.com [Source type: General]

     ."Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him.^ "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ One way Lennie could defeat his love was that George gave him a puppy and he thought that if the puppy died he would forget his love for fur.

     ^ Maybe if you took this pup and you throwed him away, then George would never know and I'd get to tend them rabbits with no trouble.
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     You were. .Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting.^ Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I love stories that make you contemplate them for days or weeks after you have finished them and even superior are stories that stay with you for a lifetime.
    • chapters.indigo.ca: Of Mice And Men: John Steinbeck: Books 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.chapters.indigo.ca [Source type: General]

     .Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?^ For one thing: you'd never hear a man getting angry at woman who kept insisting the sex was just casual.
    • "If I Were John Steinbeck I Would Say (Casually) That You Have Penis Envy" - john steinbeck - Jezebel 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC jezebel.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In one of the tents a child wailed in complaint, and a woman's soft voice soothed it and then broke into a low song, "Jesus loves you in the night.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Are you like one of those trampy girls who ends up doing porn because daddy didn't love them enough...
    • A Literary Experience: Editorial Asses with Shotguns--Who Needs Enemies? 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC literaryexperience.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source]

     .I can see it pretty clearly.^ I can see it pretty clearly.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .I can see how you loved him and what it did to you.^ And his father looked at him and did not see him.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "Did you see this?
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .I did not love him.^ I did not love him.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I herded sheep with him.” (44) Even though he cannot run as fast as in his prime or herd sheep like he did when he was younger Candy loves him just the same.
    • John Steinbeck | Essays & Term Papers Online 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC onlineessays.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I can see how you loved him and what it did to you.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     Maybe he loved me. .He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something.^ Maybe I can just find out something.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ On the contrary though it was nice to see the generosity of people even through the hard times, like when the waitress in the diner finally softened up after the cook told her to.
    • Writing Studies 1311 Spring 2009: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC blog.lib.umn.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ Likes to dress up and wear make-up to attract attention.
    • Of Mice and Men Summary at WikiSummaries: Free Book Summaries 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.wikisummaries.org [Source type: Original source]

     .But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you.^ But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I can see how you loved him and what it did to you.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.
  • "What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality!^ Guess three, if this is true of men and women, then maybe it could be true of homosexuals.
    • Of Mice and Gay Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.visandvals.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Whether they are men or women.
    • "If I Were John Steinbeck I Would Say (Casually) That You Have Penis Envy" - john steinbeck - Jezebel 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC jezebel.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Slim, who wonders why more men don't travel around together and theorizes that maybe it's because everyone is scared of everyone else, appreciates the closeness of their friendship.

     .The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human.^ The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ One of the main contributing factors for the great depression was the onset of these new machines that could do the work that humans would have to do beforehand.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ Without one another the two characters would have absolutely no chance at success, for what one is lacking the other has an ample amount of.
    • John Steinbeck | Essays & Term Papers Online 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC onlineessays.com [Source type: Original source]

     .One would be a monster."
  • It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
  • Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on.^ How do you and I live our lives?
    • The Grim Reaper and the Grapes of Wrath (Revelation 14:1-20) | Bible.org; NET Bible, Bible Study 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC bible.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ One would be a monster."
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
  • There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
  • We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left.^ There's nothing the matter.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Nothing was left in it except trash.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. .It's a breed-- selected out by accident.^ It's a breed-- selected out by accident.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     And so we're overbrave and overfearful-- we're kind and cruel as children. .We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers.^ We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. .We are mundane and materialistic-- and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?^ We are mundane and materialistic-- and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Well you’d have to know an error when you see or when others do, and I see no evidence “errors” are recognized on these wingerville bloviator blogs.
    • Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » Of Mice and Men [Updated] 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC marccooper.com [Source type: General]

     ^ I guess you’ve lost me Woody, and I don’t really know what the hell your point is, other than stringing words together in defense of “Whatever !”.
    • Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » Of Mice and Men [Updated] 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC marccooper.com [Source type: General]

     We eat too much. .We have no taste, no sense of proportion.^ We have no taste, no sense of proportion.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .We throw our energy about like waste.^ We throw our energy about like waste.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ About our people living like pigs and good, rich land laying fallow.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We told Susan about our trip and know you would have liked her, the food, and the atmosphere of Bayona, which is situated in a 200-year-old Creole cottage.
    • Travels with Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC lynnseldon.com [Source type: General]

     .In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture.^ They will get old and have no place to go.

     ^ In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But they was a whole lot of us, so the man says two an' a half cents.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture? .That's what we are, Cal-- all of us.
  • Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.^ Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ If some of us folks could ride with them an' take some a their light stuff in the truck, we wouldn't break no springs an' we could git up hills.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I ain't scared while we're all here, all that's alive, but I ain't gonna see us bust up.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     It happens to nearly everyone. .You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite.^ Do you like to feel velvet?
    • Of Mice And Men Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Ma said to the girl, "He ain't sayin' stuff like that to make you feel bad.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. .The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet.^ The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes.^ Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ A common idea is that of ones life flashing before ones eyes (very quickly remembering your lifes events just before death, something humans naturally do) before death.
    • "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck (Organized by Jon K. M�ller) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.gmsys.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ As a world leader I don't really have the luxury to give a damn whether your child might be a great painter one day, or whether you'd prefer that to be.
    • "If I Were John Steinbeck I Would Say (Casually) That You Have Penis Envy" - john steinbeck - Jezebel 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC jezebel.com [Source type: Original source]

     .A man may have lived all his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.^ Fearing that his age is making him useless, he seizes on George's description of the farm he and Lennie will have, offering his life's savings if he can join George and Lennie in owning the land.

     ^ Lennie, with his child-like mentality, believes whatever he hears, so when George tells him that they will really get their own land, he believes it with all his heart.
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He wore dark ragged pants and a torn blue shirt, open all the way down, and showing long gray under- wear, also unbuttoned.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale.^ The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     And then—the glory—so that a cricket song sweetens the ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished…

Sweet Thursday (1954)

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  • Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
  • Where does discontent start?^ Where does discontent start?
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In Christ’s first coming, He came as the meek Jesus, giving His life for the ransom of men, like a lamb silent before His shearer’s.
    • The Grim Reaper and the Grapes of Wrath (Revelation 14:1-20) | Bible.org; NET Bible, Bible Study 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC bible.org [Source type: Original source]

     .You are warm enough, but you shiver.^ You are warm enough, but you shiver.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you.^ You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It was very easy to give up yet it was difficult to see the hunger and pain of your family, therefore you had to be strong and tolerate new and old responsibilities.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     .You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields.^ Your goal in visiting New Orleans was to see the “cheerleaders” in action (more on this below), but we also wanted to get back to the city you knew and loved.
    • Travels with Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC lynnseldon.com [Source type: General]

     ^ "Looks like you don't love your boss none."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ May you feel welcome here as you live and learn and grow into your new lives.

     And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

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  • A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
  • "You know how advice is.^ I knowed from the time you was a little fella.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ WILKIE How you know?
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You know how purty she is.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway."
  • The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache?^ "You want I should stay with you an' not go on?"
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "Ma wants you right away."
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Ask me anything you want.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.
  • A man is a lonely thing.
  • To be alive at all is to have scars.
  • "Ellen, only last night, asked, 'Daddy, when will we be rich?'^ I notice things like that all the time.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Takes all my time.
    •  John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums                                                                                                     16 January 2010 6:53 UTC amb.cult.bg [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Maybe the thing isn't men at all.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     .But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.'^ Who'd you say invited you?
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But I did not say to her what I know: 'We will be rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly.'
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You know who owns the land.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]

     And that is true. In poverty she is envious. .In riches she may be a snob.^ In riches she may be a snob.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1962)

Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1962) (with links to audio file)
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  • In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence — but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.^ Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1962) (with links to audio file) In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence — but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There's tension in every word and I found myself holding my breath, knowing that something awful would happen, my eyes glued to the page, the world of Lennie and George deeply etched into my consciousness.
    • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]
    .It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature.^ It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.
  • Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages.
  • Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches — nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.^ Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches — nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ CASY No, I done my time an' got out.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
    .Literature is as old as speech.^ Literature is as old as speech.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
    The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive.^ The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Copyright Claimant: Elaine Steinbeck (W), Thom Steinbeck & John Steinbeck 4th (C) Names: Elaine Steinbeck (114 documents) example document: Joe bails out the countess, and becomes a changed man.
    • Let's go after neglected treasures beneath the seas; a plea for equal effort on inner space exploration. By John Steinbeck part 2 - Copyright Info 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: Reference]

     .From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.
  • Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. My great predecessor, William Faulkner, speaking here, referred to it as a tragedy of universal fear so long sustained that there were no longer problems of the spirit, so that only the human heart in conflict with itself seemed worth writing about.^ From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ CASY No, I done my time an' got out.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ My great predecessor, William Faulkner , speaking here, referred to it as a tragedy of universal fear so long sustained that there were no longer problems of the spirit, so that only the human heart in conflict with itself seemed worth writing about.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    .Faulkner, more than most men, was aware of human strength as well as of human weakness. He knew that the understanding and the resolution of fear are a large part of the writer's reason for being.^ He knew that the understanding and the resolution of fear are a large part of the writer's reason for being.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Faulkner, more than most men, was aware of human strength as well as of human weakness.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It was not going well, the old girl was tighter than a cat’s withers and it was going to take more than warm words to prise the requisite monies from her vice like grip.
    This is not new. .The ancient commission of the writer has not changed.^ The ancient commission of the writer has not changed.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "The ancient commission of the writer has not changed.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     .He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.
  • The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love.^ He was a man of great courage.

     ^ Jump to: navigation , search The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation.^ In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation.
    • John Steinbeck biography, information, news, links, pictures (pics) and products (author: Of Mice and Men) 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.popstarsplus.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    .I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
  • With humanity's long proud history of standing firm against natural enemies, sometimes in the face of almost certain defeat and extinction, we would be cowardly and stupid to leave the field on the eve of our greatest potential victory.
  • We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.^ I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I think that it would be stupid for me to believe anything else.
    • "If I Were John Steinbeck I Would Say (Casually) That You Have Penis Envy" - john steinbeck - Jezebel 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC jezebel.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    .Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things.
    The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man.^ After all his cheating and lying, the final thing he came clean on is just too big and overwhelming for her.
    • MediaPost Publications Episode 13: Sit Down And Close The Door. The Pierre 8 Await! 11/11/2009 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.mediapost.com [Source type: General]

     ^ And all the credit in the world to my teacher, who chose other good books the rest of the year.
    • Of Mice and Men (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ The first is that by dying they will “rest from their labors.” The term “labors” stresses the pain and the persecution of living as witnesses in a wicked world which seeks to overcome them (cf.
    • The Grim Reaper and the Grapes of Wrath (Revelation 14:1-20) | Bible.org; NET Bible, Bible Study 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC bible.org [Source type: Original source]

     .The test of his perfectibility is at hand.^ The test of his perfectibility is at hand.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    .Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.^ Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In spite of this improvement, Foote must bear some responsibility for the way the film runs out of steam.
    • Of Mice and Men 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.nibis.de [Source type: General]

     ^ The rich people, banks, owners, and institutions have taken control of the country and nature, but as the book says, “And the association of owners knew that some day the praying would stop.
    • John Steinbeck | Essays & Term Papers Online 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC onlineessays.com [Source type: Original source]
    .Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope.^ Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I'm sure only John himself would know, however, I do recall reading that he felt this was his greatest work.
    • Bibliofemme: East of Eden by John Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.bibliofemme.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man — and the Word is with Men.

Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

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  • A journey is like marriage.^ A journey is like marriage.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
    • Pt.^ I can see you thinking this way.
      • "If I Were John Steinbeck I Would Say (Casually) That You Have Penis Envy" - john steinbeck - Jezebel 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC jezebel.com [Source type: Original source]

       ^ The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
      • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
      • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

       ^ On'y way I can go wrong is think about her.
      • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

       .1
  • When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.^ When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.^ Synopsis: A middle-aged dentist who is frustrated and bored with his commonplace life looks for greater adventure.
    • John Malkovich Filmography 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]

     Nothing has worked.... In other words, I don’t improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. .I fear the disease is incurable.^ I fear the disease is incurable.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .1
  • Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.^ The hair, I swept left to right across my forehead, applied ink to the eyebrows and stared back at myself, I raised my right arm as if in salute.
    • Pt. .1
  • The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.^ The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Her face was wizened and dull, deep gray pouches under blank eyes, and a mouth slack and loose.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ She extracts the gum from her mouth and presses it firmly into my eye before swaying seductively up the aisle.
    • Pt. .1
  • The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost.^ I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The techniques of opening conversation are universal.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The Grapes of Wrath found a way not only to grab our attention but help us remember the times of the United States during that time.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     .A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.^ They meet a man who is starving to death.
    • The Grapes of Wrath | Schoolbytes 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC schoolbytes.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He was a man of his time - a 20th century observational writer, a critic, a man who wanted to expose certain things, bring them out into the light, with his eye on the "forgotten man".
    • The Sheila Variations: The Books: "The Grapes of Wrath" (John Steinbeck) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.sheilaomalley.com [Source type: General]

     ^ The example she sets greatly influences her daughter, Rose of Sharon, who, the end of the novel, nurses a starving man with her breast milk.
    • Pt. .1
  • When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.^ Just go through the book and find good ones for each character.
    • Of Mice And Men Quotes? - The Student Room 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.thestudentroom.co.uk [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ We must first gain an awe of God if we are going to respect His work.
    • The Grim Reaper and the Grapes of Wrath (Revelation 14:1-20) | Bible.org; NET Bible, Bible Study 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC bible.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In the beginning, the Joads lose their farm because the bank takes it away.
    • The Grapes of Wrath | Schoolbytes 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC schoolbytes.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .1
  • And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our sill, only defense against mass murder.^ And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our sill, only defense against mass murder.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Until now, only a few just men and women of Israel called their government to desist in their aggression against Gaza and Lebanon.
    • Israel Shamir: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.counterpunch.org [Source type: General]

     ^ Only a little multiplication now, and this land, this tractor are ours.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .1
  • The mountains of things we throw aware are greater than the things we use.^ The mountains of things we throw aware are greater than the things we use.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     .In this, if in no other way, we can see the reckless exuberance of our production and waste seems to be the index.^ In this, if in no other way, we can see the reckless exuberance of our production and waste seems to be the index.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "Can't see stuff the way other fellas can.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Large scenic changes made by unseen hands and other "theatre tricks" had no place in this production.
    • Pt. .1
  • Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh.^ Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh.
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
    • John Steinbeck - Wikiquote 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Even those of us who call ourselves environmentalists can’t escape it.
    • Of mice and men and everything else « The Dark Mountain Project 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.dark-mountain.net [Source type: Original source]

     .I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.^ And from this first we" there grows a still more dangerous thing: "I have a little food" plus "I have none."
    • Audience and closure in 'The Grapes of Wrath.' - Term paper / research paper writing service 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.proessay.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Tell you what they did you know the Holy Roller preachers all the time follow the peo- ple around, preachin' an' takin' up collections?
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You get to thinkin' about all the dangerous things.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .1
  • The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.^ This left families homeless and out of work, with the only option to venture to another area to live and find new jobs.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ Steinbeck was a really interesting guy - and I love it that his books are among the most "challenged" books to this day, by prudish school boards and ninnies who find his work dangerous.
    • The Sheila Variations: The Books: "The Grapes of Wrath" (John Steinbeck) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.sheilaomalley.com [Source type: General]

     ^ New Deal Democrats also constructed institutions intended to structurally change the political economy in order to combat the Depression and prevent another one from occurring.

     This is not offered in criticism but only as observation. .And I am sure that, as all pendulums reverse their swing, so eventually will the swollen cities rupture like dehiscent wombs and disperse their children back to the countryside.^ Next, we took the “back” way to New Orleans through Morgan City, just like you–including a swing through Houma.
    • Travels with Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC lynnseldon.com [Source type: General]
    • Pt. .2
  • Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days.^ Even if it's no good, it's still ours.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "Knowing that good writers every where are honest men or they are not good writers, we would be content with anything they reported about our country which is as dear to us as yours is to you .
    • steinbeck john - AbeBooks 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.abebooks.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Since that day, he has taken good care of his companion, protecting him even when he gets in trouble.

     .Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance.^ The killing of Candy's old dog is the ending of a hard life and foreshadows the death of Lennie.
    • Of Mice and Men Literature Guide - TeacherVision.com 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.teachervision.fen.com [Source type: General]

     ^ Full Synopsis Biography: Ann-Margret - Sugar and Spice Release: 2000 This episode of Biography examines the life and times of "Ann-Margret", a rare...
    • Biography: John Steinbeck - An American Writer (2000) - Synopsis - MSN Movies 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]

     ^ I think I was just too busy with so many other things that I could only find a little bit of time every now and then to read it.
    • The Grapes of Wrath (School & Library Binding) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists (page 5 of 3537) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     .It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.^ MA Woman can change better'n a man.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ His Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) revealed a man somewhat unsettled with the changes occurring in America, particularly the loss of community that he had grown up with in Monterey.

     ^ Well, Pa, a woman can change better than a man.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. 2
  • I am in love with Montana. .For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.^ Al knew that even he had inspired some admiration among boys of his own age because his brother had killed a man.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. 2
  • I guess this is why I hate governments. .It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by the fine print men.^ Some fine morning I'm going to throw out the beautiful speeches about how I can do better work than carrying a gun and go down town and enlist.
    • steinbeck john - AbeBooks 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.abebooks.com [Source type: General]

     .There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.^ There is actually no reason for Curly to just come up to Lennie to start a fight is unlikely but maybe Curly thought Lennie as a threat to him or his wife!
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There ain't gonna be no fight either.
    • Grapes Of Wrath Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Henry Fonda movie based on the John Steinbeck novel 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.script-o-rama.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .2
  • This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.^ It turned out that California was not quite the land of milk and honey.
    • The Grapes of Wrath (School & Library Binding) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists (page 5 of 3537) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]
    • Pt. 3
  • The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. .It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.^ Mack epitomizes the very nature of Cannery Row because he is the small-minded man trying to do good for others, but lacking the responsibility and know-how to do it.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ Tom tells her that California doesnt have enough jobs and isnt a good place to go.
    • The Grapes of Wrath | Schoolbytes 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC schoolbytes.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .3
  • There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by.^ "Use' ta work there in McAlester an' think all the things I'd do.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There's one thing that got me stumped, an' that's Willy Feclcy drivin' that cat', an' gonna be a straw boss on Ian' his own folks used to farm.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     It was called the People. .Find out where the People have gone.^ Find out why people of all ages and backgrounds are joining the Peace Corps.
    • EventKeeper at Worcester Public Library - Plymouth Rocket Web Calendar Solution 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.eventkeeper.com [Source type: General]

     ^ When the deputies had gone, the people came out of the tents.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ In the movie it looked as if people were living in huts made out of sheets, or whatever scrap they could find.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     I don’t mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that’s the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.
    • Pt. .3
  • He wasn't involved with a race that could build a thing it had to escape from.^ There wasn't a thing in the world I could do about it.
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Pt. .3
  • I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.^ I wonder why authors who are traditionally published worry so much about the title and the cover art?
    • A Literary Experience: Editorial Asses with Shotguns--Who Needs Enemies? 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC literaryexperience.blogspot.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Interesting and enjoyable look inside Steinbeck This journal of Steinbeck's progress through Grapes of Wrath gives an inside view of what was on his mind when writing the novel.Interesting to see what Grapes of Wrath looked like from the inside out.
    • Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Steinbeck John 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.geometry.net [Source type: General]

     ^ Lennie continues to talk about his rabbits, and she asks him why he likes animals so much.
    • Pt. 3
  • We value virtue but do not discuss it. .The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.^ We can’t begin to imagine what Steinbeck would think if he saw our Winnebago compared to his little truck camper!
    • Travels with Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC lynnseldon.com [Source type: General]
    • Pt. 3
  • Life could not change the sun or water the dessert, so it changed itself.
    • Pt. 3
  • Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. .Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.^ "A great book in every sense of the word.
    • Bibliofemme: East of Eden by John Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.bibliofemme.com [Source type: General]

     And there’s an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.
    • Pt. .4
  • Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.^ After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself.
    • John Malkovich Filmography 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: General]
    • Pt. 4
  • A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.
    • Pt. 4
  • He doesn't belong to a race clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live at peace with itself.
    • Pt. 4

Writers at Work (1977)

Fourth Series, ed. George Plimpton
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  • A book is like a man — clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.^ Thought I'd like to have some a them gloves over there.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There's tension in every word and I found myself holding my breath, knowing that something awful would happen, my eyes glued to the page, the world of Lennie and George deeply etched into my consciousness.
    • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]

     ^ And the concrete road shone like a mirror under the sun, and in the distance the heat made it seem that there were pools of water in the road.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • On Publishing
  • Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play. .
    • On Critics
  • Time is the only critic without ambition.
    • On Critics
  • It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
    • On Intent
  • I have owed you this letter for a very long time — but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.^ Takes all my time.
    •  John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums                                                                                                     16 January 2010 6:53 UTC amb.cult.bg [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "I been a long time without a girl," he said.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I'm givin' you my shirt, an' you took all this time.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]
    • Letter to his literary agent, found on his desk after his death in 1968

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  • Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. .Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.
  • Ideas are like rabbits.^ The only thing I didn't like about the book is that especially in the beginning it would go away from the story and describe the landscape it in great detail.
    • Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: General]

     ^ He feels like he is contending with the very ideals he has spread to others- traditional ideals of God and Jesus.
    • John Steinbeck | Essays & Term Papers Online 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC onlineessays.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Oh god its very shame..How come dear.Your site just clears the Priority 1 only.

     .You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
  • It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
  • No one wants advice, only corroboration.
  • Power does not corrupt.^ "How many of you going to work?"
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ AGENT You men want to work?
    • THE GRAPES OF WRATH 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ How about if you get work there an' live in one of them cars?"
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
    • .
  • So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
    • On travelling in the USSR
  • ...there is a base theme.^ When the Joads arrived in California, they found that there was little work and had to travel frequently to find temporary jobs that typically involved picking crops.
    • HIST 120: U.S. History Survey: Movie Review: The Grapes of Wrath 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC chnm.gmu.edu [Source type: General]

     ^ The jobs they thought they would be able to get in California just simply were not there, as a multitude of other “Okies” had traveled to California looking for the same promise of jobs and land.
    • The Grapes of Wrath (School & Library Binding) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists (page 5 of 3537) 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     ^ After lunch (not the duck yet) overlooking the water in our RV, we stopped by a small bookshop (a favorite travel activity) and asked the man there about the house.
    • Travels with Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC lynnseldon.com [Source type: General]

     .Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other.^ Maybe he needs two hunderd men, so he talks to five hunderd, an' they tell other folks, an' when you get to the place, they's a thousan' men.
    • Full text of "The Grapes Of Wrath" 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.archive.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Why do you think the other men do not visit him or allow him to visit them?
    • Of Mice and Men Summary at WikiSummaries: Free Book Summaries 18 January 2010 10:35 UTC www.wikisummaries.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ "Of Mice And Men" it is obvious that all the people on the ranch were lonely and although George and Lennie had each other they still possessed their own kind of loneliness.
    • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men :: John Steinbeck Mice Men Essays 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.123helpme.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.^ But the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry; and he is contemptuous of the land and of himself.
    • The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback) by John Steinbeck - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists 24 January 2010 0:49 UTC www.goodreads.com [Source type: General]

     .There are shorter means, many of them.^ The very fact that there are so many facets to this novel means I would have to say quite simply that it is an extraordinary work of art.
    • Bibliofemme: East of Eden by John Steinbeck 16 January 2010 6:53 UTC www.bibliofemme.com [Source type: General]

     there is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.
  • If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.

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John Steinbeck
File:John Steinbeck
Born: February 27, 1902
Salinas Valley, California

Died:December 20, 1968
New York
Occupation: Writer

John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) is a very famous American writer of the 20th century. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Some of his most famous works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), which won a Pulitzer Prize. In these two books, Steinbeck writes about migrant workers during the Great Depression.

Steinbeck used naturalism in his books. His characters and stories came from real events from the early 20th century. His work shows his wide range of interests, such as politics, history, philosophy and mythology.

Seventeen of his works were made into Hollywood films. Steinbeck also tried screen writing, which is writing for films. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing in Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film, Lifeboat.

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Early life

Steinbeck was born to John Ernst Steinbeck Sr., a first-generation German American. He attended Stanford University until 1925 when he left the university in order to become a writer. His first work, Cup of Gold, came out four years later, but was not successful. He married Carol Henning the following year.

Steinbeck first gained success with the novel Tortilla Flat in 1935. The story was about two men living in Monterey, California during the Great Depression. The book won the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal. It was made into a movie seven years later, starring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, and John Garfield.

Critical success

Steinbeck continued to write on the subject of the Great Depression. Two years later, Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men, considered as one of the best works of American literature in the twentieth century. His story dealt with the lives of two migrant laborers with big dreams in California. It was turned into a Hollywood film in 1939, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as "Lennie" and Burgess Meredith as "George". That year, Steinbeck followed up with another book, The Grapes of Wrath. The book is about the Joad family and their travels from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl in search of work. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and film adaptation won two Academy Awards, and is ranked #7 on the American Film Institute's list, 100 Years...100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies. There was controversy with the book, though. Many people felt that Steinbeck's liberal opinions misrepresented the truth of Dust Bowl migrations. He had this student that his name was Oscar Perez and they would both do the job together.

Later life

Steinbeck continued to write from 1940s to 1960s. He wrote such works as The Moon is Down, The Pearl, Cannery Row, East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent. In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his realistic and imaginative writing, combining as it does sympathetic humor and keen social perception."

Two years later, he was awarded the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died on December 20, 1968 in New York at the age of 66, of a heart attack.

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1901 – 1925

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1926 – 1950

Deledda (1926)Template:· Bergson (1927)Template:· Undset (1928)Template:· Mann (1929)Template:· Lewis (1930)Template:· Karlfeldt (1931)Template:· Galsworthy (1932)Template:· Bunin (1933)Template:· Pirandello (1934)Template:· No award (1935)Template:· O'Neill (1936)Template:· Martin du Gard (1937)Template:· Buck (1938)Template:· Sillanpää (1939)Template:· No awards (World War II)Template:· Jensen (1944)Template:· G. Mistral (1945)Template:· Hesse (1946)Template:· Gide (1947)Template:· Eliot (1948)Template:· Faulkner (1949)Template:· Russell (1950)

1951 – 1975

Lagerkvist (1951)Template:· Mauriac (1952)Template:· Churchill (1953)Template:· Hemingway (1954)Template:· Laxness (1955)Template:· Jiménez (1956)Template:· Camus (1957)Template:· Pasternak (1958)Template:· Quasimodo (1959)Template:· Perse (1960)Template:· Andrić (1961)Template:· Steinbeck (1962)Template:· Seferis (1963)Template:· Sartre (1964)Template:· Sholokhov (1965)Template:· Agnon / Sachs (1966)Template:·w Asturias (1967)Template:· Kawabata (1968)Template:· Beckett (1969)Template:· Solzhenitsyn (1970)Template:· Neruda (1971)Template:· Böll (1972)Template:· White (1973)Template:· Johnson / Martinson (1974)Template:·w Montale (1975)

1976 – 2000

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2001 – present

Naipaul (2001)Template:· Kertész (2002)Template:· Coetzee (2003)Template:· Jelinek (2004)Template:· Pinter (2005)Template:· Pamuk (2006)Template:· Lessing (2007)Template:· Le Clézio (2008)Template:· Müller (2009)

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