John Steinbeck (person)

1902-68, American writer

He was born in Salinas, Calif. His works are marked by a compassionate understanding of the world's disinherited.

Books:

• Cup of Gold - 1929
• The Pastures of Heaven - 1932
• To A God Unknown - 1933
• Tortilla Flat - 1935
• In Dubious Battle - 1936
• Of Mice and Men - 1937 BBC Big Read Top 100
• The Red Pony in The Long Valley - 1938 (Short story)
• The Long Valley 1938
• His best-known novel, The Grapes of Wrath - 1939; Pulitzer Prize, BBC Big Read Top 100, ABR's 100 Best Books - Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Fiction - 278 Books You Should Have Read By Now
• The Forgotten Village - 1941
• Sea of Cortez - 1941 (Journal)
• The Moon is Down - 1942
• Bombs Away - 1942
• The Portable Steinbeck - 1943
• Cannery Row - 1945
• The Pearl - 1947
• The Wayward Bus - 1947
• A Russian Jounal - 1948
• Burning Bright - 1950
• The Log from the Sea of Cortez - 1951
• East of Eden - 1952
• A Short Reign of Pippin IV - 1957
• The Winter of Our Discontent - 1961

In 1962 he won the Nobel Prize in literature. He also got on the Modern Library's 100 Best Books: Fiction for The Grapes of Wrath

He also got on the list of Top 100 Works of Journalism In the United States In the 20th Century for an article he wrote for the San Francisco Examiner.

He is among Foreign authors banned by Ireland in 1922 and The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s

Source: McMichael, George (Ed.), "Anthology of American Literature", Macmillan Publishing, NY, 1974 Last Updated 04.15.04