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Steinbeck Background Info. John Steinbeck. 1902-1968 Believed in the political power of fiction and wrote to deliver a message Born in California’s Salinas Valley Worked a variety of jobs in his youth: fruit picker, painter, scientist’s lab assistant, etc. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Steinbeck Background Info
John Steinbeck 1902-1968 Believed in the political power of
fiction and wrote to deliver a message Born in California’s Salinas Valley Worked a variety of jobs in his youth:
fruit picker, painter, scientist’s lab assistant, etc.
Of Mice and Men (1937) was his first literary success
Won Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and Nobel in in 1962
Common Characteristics of
Steinbeck’s WritingMost take place in the Salinas ValleyMany works take place in the Great
DepressionWorks known as “Dust Bowl fiction”Mostly focuses on the lower class
Steinbeck Novels
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Cannery Row
The Pearl
The Red Pony
The Moon is Down
The Grapes of WrathSteinbeck spent 2 years
living and working with “Okies”
This experience inspired The Grapes of Wrath, for which he won the Pulitzer
Story of a family displaced from the Oklahoma dust bowl who found poverty and exploitation in California, in lieu of the wages and land for which they had hoped
Of Mice and MenConcentrates on two
displaced migrant ranch workers
Appears in the American Library Association’s list of Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century
Based on “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns
Quotes from To a Mouse “The best laid schemes ‘o mice and men gang aft
agley.” “The best laid plans of mice and men often go
astray.”