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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

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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: 3.98 · 5,391,476 ratings · 201,811 reviews · 1,045 distinct works • Similar authors

	Of Mice and Men 3.90 avg rating — 2,836,784 ratings — published 1937 — 1111 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 4.03 avg rating — 994,533 ratings — published 1939 — 1001 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 4.44 avg rating — 638,759 ratings — published 1952 — 164 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 3.57 avg rating — 271,911 ratings — published 1947 — 572 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 — 154,441 ratings — published 1943 — 53 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 4.08 avg rating — 107,159 ratings — published 1961 — 180 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 — 63,275 ratings — published 1935 — 338 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 — 53,868 ratings — published 1961 — 189 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 3.50 avg rating — 60,324 ratings — published 1933 — 2 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 3.95 avg rating — 33,609 ratings — published 1942	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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1855, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 521 pages

9 votes, 23.7%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 351 pages

7 votes, 18.4%

1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages

5 votes, 13.2%

1902,The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 256 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1980, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages

4 votes, 10.5%

1962, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 325 pages

3 votes, 7.9%

1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages

2 votes, 5.3%

1847, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 507 pages

2 votes, 5.3%

1895, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, 118 pages

1 vote, 2.6%

1886, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 545 pages

1 vote, 2.6%

1965, Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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