Steinbeck turned to filmmaking after the film success of The Grapes of Wrath. ... (griolers) The works of Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by U.S. novelist John Steinbeck is one of the most powerful chronicles in American literature of the Depression of the 1930s. ... Groliers new encylopidea Benson, Jackson T., The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography (1990); DeMott, R., ed., Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989); Fensch, Thomas, ed., Conversations with John Steinbeck (1988); Lisca, Peter, The Wide World of John Steinbeck (1981); Noble, Donald R., ed.,...

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The three novels published at this point in Steinbeck's career were In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and his ever-famous The Grapes of Wrath (1939). After the best-selling success of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck went to Mexico to collect marine life with the freelance biologist Edward F. ... Published 1975 The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights published in 1976 and finally Working Days: The Journal of The Grapes of Wrath published in 1989. ...

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Many of his novels deal with social or economic issues of this time, including some of his most successful works such as "In Dubious Battle" (1936), "Of Mice and Men" (1937), "The Long Valley" (1938), and "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939). ...

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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ," - John Steinbeck. This quote explains a lot about Steinbeck's life and his perspective on the time period in which he lived. The majority of the America at the time was sad, and it seemed easy for many to just give up. Steinbeck lived in a time period that ...

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