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John Steinbeck

Born

in Salinas, California, The United States

February 27, 1902

Died

December 20, 1968

Website

http://www.steinbeck.org/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 5,661,626 ratings · 232,251 reviews · 1,121 distinct works • Similar authors

	Of Mice and Men 3.90 avg rating — 2,945,572 ratings — published 1937 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grapes of Wrath 4.04 avg rating — 1,025,981 ratings — published 1939 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East of Eden 4.46 avg rating — 718,099 ratings — published 1952 — 595 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pearl 3.59 avg rating — 289,844 ratings — published 1947 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 161,512 ratings — published 1943 — 182 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.09 avg rating — 112,211 ratings — published 1961 — 373 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tortilla Flat 3.83 avg rating — 66,665 ratings — published 1935 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter of Our Discontent 4.01 avg rating — 56,256 ratings — published 1961 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Red Pony 3.51 avg rating — 62,645 ratings — published 1933 — 240 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moon Is Down 3.96 avg rating — 36,054 ratings — published 1942 — 243 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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February 2016 Monthly Short Story Poll

1942, The Stranger by Albert Camus, 123 pages

27 votes, 18.9%

1915, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 98 pages

21 votes, 14.7%

1945, Animal Farm by George Orwell, 102 pages

20 votes, 14.0%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

17 votes, 11.9%

1937, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages

16 votes, 11.2%

1995, Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood, 127 pages

9 votes, 6.3%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1894, A Respectable Woman by Kate Chopin, 26 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1960, Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges, 96 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1912, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 96 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

1922, The Case of the Registered Letter by Auguste Groner, 64 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

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