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John Steinbeck
American novelist and Nobel laureate whose fiction explored California life, economic hardship and social change in works such as The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden.
California fiction
Steinbeck drew on California’s landscapes and working communities in novels including Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. His writing combined close observation with attention to people facing economic pressure.
Recognition
The Grapes of Wrath received the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 for a body of work that brought realistic and imaginative writing together.
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