The life
A Stanford dropout who worked on ranches and in factories before publishing, Steinbeck wrote about migrant labour with an ecological eye. He reported on the Dust Bowl migration himself and let the notebooks shape the fiction.
He wrote American working life as tragedy without sentimentality.
Annotated here3 texts
NovellaAmerican
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 1937
Two migrant workers and a farm they will never own.
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NovelAmerican
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck · 1939
A family drives west into a promise that has been sold already.
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NovelPost-war
East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952
Two families, one valley, and the oldest story retold as a choice.
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