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John Steinbeck - Coggle Diagram
John Steinbeck
Career
First 3 novels were unsuccessful
Little success from his 4th novel ("Tortilla Flat") inspired him to continue
Pulitzer Prize in 1940 ("The Grapes of Wrath)
Nobel Prize in literature (1962)
"Of Mice and Men" (1937)
Style and themes
Dreams and lost hope
Sympathetic humor
Rootless (despised) Americans
Man's need to belong
Influence
Awareness of the social and economic issues of rural America
Source of hope and inspiration
17 out of his 33 works have been made into TV or studio movies
"Giant of American Letters"
Early life
Born in Salinas California (1902)
Spent summers working on farms and ranches
Started in Stanford university in 1919, left in 1925 without graduating