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John Steinbeck


Born
in Salinas, California, The United States
February 27, 1902

Died
December 20, 1968

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Genre
Literature & Fiction

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Ed Ricketts, Will Lang, Socrates, Emiliano Zapata, Lincoln Steffens, A ...more


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: 3.97 · 5,117,542 ratings · 178,367 reviews · 967 distinct works • Similar authors
Of Mice and Men
3.89 avg rating — 2,706,268 ratings — published 1937 — 492 editions
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The Grapes of Wrath
4.02 avg rating — 956,791 ratings — published 1939 — 282 editions
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East of Eden
4.42 avg rating — 584,152 ratings — published 1952 — 177 editions
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The Pearl
3.55 avg rating — 256,213 ratings — published 1947 — 270 editions
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
4.06 avg rating — 146,693 ratings — published 1943 — 369 editions
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Travels with Charley: In Se...
4.08 avg rating — 101,360 ratings — published 1961 — 118 editions
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Tortilla Flat
3.83 avg rating — 59,806 ratings — published 1935 — 333 editions
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The Winter of Our Discontent
4.01 avg rating — 51,212 ratings — published 1961 — 23 editions
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The Red Pony
3.49 avg rating — 57,917 ratings — published 1933 — 235 editions
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The Moon Is Down
3.94 avg rating — 31,079 ratings — published 1942 — 102 editions
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“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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Dune - Frank Herbert 1965, 661 sayfa
 
  23 votes 31.1%

Büyülü Dağ - Thomas Mann 1924, 423 sayfa
 
  16 votes 21.6%

Cennetin Doğusu - John Steinbeck 1952, 656 sayfa
 
  14 votes 18.9%

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