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John Steinbeck


Born
in Salinas, California, The United States
February 27, 1902

Died
December 20, 1968

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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
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Of Mice and Men

3.89 avg rating — 2,582,591 ratings — published 1937 — 1111 editions
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The Grapes of Wrath

4.01 avg rating — 917,394 ratings — published 1939 — 1005 editions
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East of Eden

4.41 avg rating — 548,444 ratings — published 1952 — 577 editions
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The Pearl

3.53 avg rating — 241,735 ratings — published 1947 — 548 editions
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

4.06 avg rating — 139,985 ratings — published 1945 — 364 editions
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Travels with Charley: In Se...

4.08 avg rating — 96,246 ratings — published 1961 — 343 editions
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Tortilla Flat

3.83 avg rating — 56,799 ratings — published 1935 — 328 editions
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The Winter of Our Discontent

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The Red Pony

3.48 avg rating — 55,945 ratings — published 1933 — 96 editions
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The Moon Is Down

3.93 avg rating — 29,119 ratings — published 1942 — 244 editions
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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 1937, 122 pages, Group read: 2016
 
  81 votes, 25.6%

Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871, 904 pages, Group read: 2016
 
  67 votes, 21.1%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 1965, 604 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  59 votes, 18.6%

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 1905, 351 pages, Group read: 2017
 
  54 votes, 17.0%

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 1979, 260 pages, Group read: 2018
 
  36 votes, 11.4%

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