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Steinbeck Background Info
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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
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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
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Steinbeck Novels
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath
Cannery Row
The Pearl
The Red Pony
The Moon is Down
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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
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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
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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.”