John Steinbeck explores these ideas in his book East of Eden. ... John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. ... The Grapes of Wrath, written in 1939, was perhaps Steinbeck's most famous novel, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. ... Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. ... Steinbeck describes Cathy as being "born without a conscious or soul." ...

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