John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Epic novel spanning generations in California's Salinas Valley, exploring good and evil

About the author

John Steinbeck
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.

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