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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts...perhaps the fear of a loss of power"

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"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

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Grapes of Wrath was a banned book because of its strong contact with left wing writers and labor union figures
After his friend died in a motorcycle accident, he went through a period of mental depression which later inspired his most successful writing period during 1930
He remarried three times

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Wrote a beautiful love letter to his son about how to deal with love, because his son wrote to him about how he was falling in love with a girl. This letter still resonates with many teenage love stories. "The object of love is the best and most beautiful,’ he tells Thom. ‘Try to live up to it.’ He ends the letter by assuring his son, ‘And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.’

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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

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Conservatives read the Grapes of Wrath and saw its collectivist message as a rejection of American individualism. They called Steinbeck a communist. The book was burned and banned across America while also being briefly banned in Russia. The Communist Party was troubled by the thought that it showed that even the most destitute Americans could afford a car.

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Steinbeck was raised with modest means. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, tried his hand at several different jobs to keep his family fed: He owned a feed-and-grain store, managed a flour plant and served as treasurer of Monterey County.

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Steinbeck not only won a Nobel Prize for his literature and use of humor in his novels, but he was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Johnson.

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Steinbeck next dealt with the problems of labor unions in In Dubious Battle (1936), an effective story of a strike (when workers all decide to stop working as a form of protest against unfair treatment) by local grape pickers. Of Mice and Men (1937), first conceived as a play, is a tightly constructed novella (short novel) about an unusual friendship between two migrant workers (laborers who travel to wherever there is available work, usually on farms). Although the book is powerfully written and often moving, some critics feel that it lacks a moral vision.

Read more: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Steinbeck-John.html#ixzz4aeX5vu3f

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

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The grapes of wrath is about an Oklahoma family that migrated to California during the dust bowl. It won a Pulitzer Prize for portraying the plight of migrant workers during the Great Depression.

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If any of you remember reading "The Pearl", in 8th grade, it was also written by Steinbeck.

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Went to Stanford, then moved to New York. First became widely known for Tortilla Flat.

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At the height of its popularity, The Grapes of Wrath sold 10,000 copies per week.

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John Steinbeck served as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II.

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This is JohnFollowing Stanford, Steinbeck tried to make a go of it as a freelance writer. He briefly moved to New York City, where he found work as a construction worker and a newspaper reporter

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-Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962
-Lived in Pacific Grove with his wife, Carol Henning, whom he married in 1930
-He wrote the screenplay for Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata
-Died on December 20, 1968

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Author of 27 books and winner of 1962 Nobel Prize in literature. Called a "giant of American letters.

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Steinbeck's novels generally deal with rural labor and the economic troubles that these people faced.

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Steinbeck's experience as a war correspondent in WW2 provides inspiration for the novels like Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (1942); Once There Was a War (1958), a collection of Steinbeck's dispatches from 1943; and A Russian Journal (1948). This contributed to many of the themes and attitudes in his novels.

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Tortilla Flat (his first novel), was quite earthy humor, and later he tended to write more serious fiction.

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Steinbeck first became widely known with Tortilla Flat (1935)
Grapes of Wrath captures the angst and mood of the Great Depression

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Steinbeck dropped out of Stanford (He mainly went there to please his parents) and worked as a manual laborer before becoming a successful writer, which he decided to pursue as a career at 14. He would often write poems and stories in his bedroom. He served as a war correspondent during WWII.

His book, The Grapes of Wrath, is about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California. It won a Pulitzer Prize.

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John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. He died on December 20, 1968 in New York City, New York.

Quote from Steinbeck: Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.