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John Steinbeck

Born

in Salinas, California, The United States

February 27, 1902

Died

December 20, 1968

Website

http://www.steinbeck.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 4,813,150 ratings · 157,548 reviews · 779 distinct works • Similar authors

	Of Mice and Men 3.88 avg rating — 2,552,186 ratings — published 1937 — 941 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grapes of Wrath 4.01 avg rating — 907,984 ratings — published 1939 — 931 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East of Eden 4.41 avg rating — 540,142 ratings — published 1952 — 487 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pearl 3.53 avg rating — 238,471 ratings — published 1947 — 511 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 138,084 ratings — published 1945 — 350 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating — 94,771 ratings — published 1961 — 331 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 56,003 ratings — published 1935 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Pony 3.48 avg rating — 55,394 ratings — published 1933 — 218 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter of Our Discontent really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 48,114 ratings — published 1961 — 176 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moon Is Down 3.93 avg rating — 28,622 ratings — published 1942 — 230 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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April 2018 New School Poll

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, 183 pages, 1968

65 votes, 18.2%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945

42 votes, 11.8%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pages, 1946

34 votes, 9.5%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902

33 votes, 9.2%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932

27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995

26 votes, 7.3%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932

22 votes, 6.2%

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, 554 pages, 1982

21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938

21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940

17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933

11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903

10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939

10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987

9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974

4 votes, 1.1%

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, 360 pages, 1962

3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

2 votes, 0.6%

357 total votes

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