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John Steinbeck. 11 books (LIT) Views: 1230 Downloads: 463 Author(s): John Steinbeck Publisher: Date     : Pages    : Format   : LIT OCR      : Yes Quality  : Language : English ISBN     : Contributor: bookworm Description:  Click to see full description List: Cannery Row.lit Cup Of Gold.lit East Of Eden.lit Of Mice and Men.lit Once There Was A War.lit The Grapes of Wrath.lit The Moon Is Down.lit The Pastures Of Heaven.lit The Pearl.lit To a God Unknown.lit Tortilla Flat.lit John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) is one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and the migrant worker during the Great Depression. Steinbeck populated his stories with struggling characters and is often considered an exponent of the naturalist school. His characters and his stories drew on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the 20th century. His body of work reflects his wide range of interests, including marine biology, jazz, politics, philosophy, history, and myth. John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902 of German and Irish ancestry. His father, John Steinbeck, Sr., served as the County Treasurer while his mother, Olive (Hamilton) Steinbeck, a former school teacher, fostered Steinbeck's love of reading and the written word. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, nourishing his impression of the California countryside and its people. After graduating from Salinas High School in 1919, Steinbeck attended Stanford University. Originally an English major, he pursued a program of independent study and his attendance was sporadic. During this time he worked periodically at various jobs and left Stanford permanently in 1925 to pursue his writing career in New York. However, he was unsuccessful in getting any of his writing published and finally returned to California. Seventeen of his works, including Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1955), went on to become Hollywood films, and Steinbeck himself achieved success as a Hollywood writer, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, in 1945. He was known by many as a regionalist, naturalist, mystic, and proletarian writer. He was also respected for his empathy for the migrant workers of the time. Thanks to sender from: Member mohill Title Link Password Size (MB) Links:       Download instruction      Title Links Password Size (MB) Down Thank to Del 1560 Book http://rapidshare.com/files/27303031/EE1... books_for_all 3,21 463 bookworm X                                        Donate Us Comments