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Only 11% of his books were successful so he kind of sucked a little

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gLXcDtWKdRQ

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Steinbeck was a failure in nearly everything at the beginning of his life; he dropped out of Stanford college then tried to be a freelance writer but was forced to return home. In California he finally earned renown with his publishing of "Tortilla Flats".

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Grapes of wrath sold ten thousand copies a week at its peak

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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

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Social novels about rural sitautions books are well developed and focus on social issues

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His books, including his landmark work The Grapes of Wrath(1939), often dealt with social and economic issues. 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.

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He wrote a total of 27 books. 3 of them are considered classics. He earned a nobel prize

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John Steinbeck moved to New York City briefly where he worked as a construction worker and reporter for a newspaper but returned to California.

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"The trees and the muscled mountains are the world--but not the world apart from man--the world and man--the one inseparable unit man and his environment. Why they should ever have been understood as being separate I do not know."

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Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California, a culturally diverse place influenced greatly by the migrants who moved to the area. His upbringing imparted a regionalistic texture to his writing, giving many of his works a very real feeling of place.

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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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Steinbeck's books and novels revolve around the social issues of the working class. Usually, his books focus on the character's struggle, who were often part of the working class during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. Some of his later works were more varied and focused on science, politics, and religion.

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Steinbeck is a successful college dropout

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Steinbecks novels can be classified as social novels dealing with economic problems. Steinbeck became known with Tortilla Flat which was humorous short stories.

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Steinbeck married a total of 3 girls so he was a lowkey player

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Steinbeck often writes about the working class and was a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression.

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"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do"

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John's Steinbeck books are about

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

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

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John Steinbeck's novels, primarily "Grapes of Wrath," dealt with current social and economic issues. The Grapes of Wrath followed the staory of a farmer family moving from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to California. It won a Pulitzer Prize.

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John Steinbeck's novels, primarily "Grapes of Wrath," dealt with current social and economic issues. The Grapes of Wrath followed the staory of a farmer family moving from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to California. It won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Trevor Yohon

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Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural labour, but there is also a streak of worship of the soil in his books, which does not always agree with his matter-of-fact sociological approach