John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck was an American novelist (1902–1968) whose works chronicled Depression-era California and the struggles of working people.
Best known for *The Grapes of Wrath* and *Of Mice and Men*, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
His name often appears in discussions of American realism and social fiction: We read Steinbeck in high school.
Central California agricultural city
- MontereyCentral California coastal city
- Cannery RowFish processing district
- CarmelBiblical Israeli promontory
- Big SurCalifornia coastal region
Central Valley · San Joaquin · Tortilla Flat · sardines · tide pools · paisanos · agricultural labor · coastal California
Thirties prairie ecological collapse
- OkiesDust Bowl refugees, informally
- migrant workersPeople moving for jobs
- HoovervillesDepression-era homeless encampments
- foreclosureLender seizes mortgaged property
sharecroppers · Route 66 · labor camps · tenant farmers · drought · poverty · jalopy · New Deal
People moving for jobs
- povertySevere lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- human dignityIntrinsic worth of persons
- American DreamUS ethos of opportunity
dispossession · solidarity · survival · exploitation · social justice · outcasts · loneliness · friendship
Depression-era migrant novel
- East of EdenNovel about sibling rivalry
- Cannery RowFish processing district
- Tortilla FlatMonterey district of laborers
- The PearlNacre-coated irritant growth
Celebrated achievement recipient
- StockholmSweden's seat of government
- 1962Four-digit date
- acceptance speechRemarks after winning
- banquetFormal celebratory meal
medal · citation · lifetime achievement · international recognition · honoree
Salinas
Central California agricultural city
- MontereyCentral California coastal city
- Cannery RowFish processing district
- CarmelBiblical Israeli promontory
Big Sur · Central Valley · San Joaquin · Tortilla Flat · sardines · tide pools · paisanos · agricultural labor · coastal California
Dust Bowl
Thirties prairie ecological collapse
- OkiesDust Bowl refugees, informally
- migrant workersPeople moving for jobs
- HoovervillesDepression-era homeless encampments
foreclosure · sharecroppers · Route 66 · labor camps · tenant farmers · drought · poverty · jalopy · New Deal · WPA
migrant workers
People moving for jobs
- povertySevere lack of resources
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
- human dignityIntrinsic worth of persons
American Dream · dispossession · solidarity · survival · exploitation · social justice · outcasts · loneliness · friendship · land ownership
Grapes of Wrath
Depression-era migrant novel
- East of EdenNovel about sibling rivalry
- Cannery RowFish processing district
- Tortilla FlatMonterey district of laborers
laureate
Celebrated achievement recipient
- StockholmSweden's seat of government
- 1962Four-digit date
- acceptance speechRemarks after winning
banquet · medal · citation · lifetime achievement · international recognition · honoree
- Authors JJ.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, James Patterson, Jack London, James Joyce
- California WritersJack London, Joan Didion, Raymond Chandler, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury
- Pulitzer WinnersToni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Edith Wharton
- Proletarian LiteratureThe Jungle, Mother, Upton Sinclair
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde
John SteinbeckAyn Rand
Objectivist movement founder
F. Scott Fitzgerald · Edith Wharton · Henry James · Tom Wolfe · William Faulkner
John SteinbeckWilliam Faulkner
James Joyce · Vladimir Nabokov · Thomas Pynchon · Henry James · Marcel Proust