John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was the compassionate chronicler of America's dispossessed, especially the migrant farmworkers of California's Central Valley. The Grapes of Wrath earned him both the Pulitzer Prize and, later, the Nobel Prize.
Works
- The Grapes of WrathNovel depicting a family's struggle to survive the Great Depression in California
- Of Mice and MenNovella about migrant workers' friendship and dreams amid poverty and hardship
- East of EdenEpic novel spanning generations in California's Salinas Valley, exploring good and evil
- Cannery RowCollection of interconnected stories about misfits in a bohemian California seaside town
- Tortilla FlatNovel of poor Mexican Americans navigating friendship and hardship in Depression-era California