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John Steinbeck wrote realistically and compassionately about ordinary people and their daily struggles during the Great Depression. Hollywood made movies based on his novels. He won Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. John Ford put on a big screen Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, and won Oscar for Best Director. These are just some highlights from a long and successful career.

Maybe everybody is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck Portrait

John Steinbeck portrait

John Steinbeck portrait

The writer John Steinbeck Rules

The mighty John Steinbeck wrote some of the finest books in the history of American literature.

Steinbeck's story of two men struggling to survive during the Great Depression shows George and Lennie fading, caught on a path they cannot escape.

Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men shows George and Lennie caught in the bleak landscape of the Great Depression. Idioms are defined. George and Lennie are briefly described. Text example of an idiom from the work.

Steinbeck's story of two men struggling to survive during the Great Depression shows George and Lennie fading, caught on a path they cannot escape. "Idioms" are defined with a select text example and a short description of the characters.

John Steinbecks tale of the Great Depression shows Lenny and George trapped in a landscape of hopelessness where they cling to their love for each other and their dreams

John Steinbeck's, novel of the Great Depression, THE GRAPES OF WRATH image shows the bleak Dust Bowl landscape where a car, readied for a journey waits as the sun sets on a lonely farmhouse.

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.” Inspired by John Steinbeck’s classic novels The Grapes of Wrath.

A tired old truck and a quote from Steinbeck's stark novel of the 1930's American Great Depression.

Shows George and Lennie as part of the harsh depression landscape and the fence that guides them on their path and "we can live offa the fat of the lan'" text quote

John Steinbeck quote: I guess there are never enough books.

John Steinbeck's novel, OF MICE AND MEN tells of two laborers, George and Lennie, who wander the barren landscape of the Great Depression. Although they are doomed to a harsh existence, they have their dreams . . . With selected text

John Steinbeck quote: All great and precious things are lonely.

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad

A Quote from "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck: “She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself.”

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (/ˈstaɪnbɛk/; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."2 He has been called "a giant of American letters,"3 and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.4 During his writing career, he authored 33 books, 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 o...

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John Steinbeck portrait and quote: There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty.

John Steinbeck quote: Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

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John Steinbeck quote: All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: To be alive at all is to have scars.

John Steinbeck quote: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

John Steinbeck quote: When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

John Steinbeck portrait and quote: I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found,

John Steinbeck quote: And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck quote: Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck quote: It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.