Steinbeck
John (Ernst) [urnst], /ɜrnst/, 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel Prize 1962.
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Steinbeck said people are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside.
How a Literary Road Trip Helped Me Cope with Infertility | smurguia | August 17, 2021 | Outside OnlineThey don’t belong to a species “clever enough to split the atom but not clever enough to live in peace with itself,” as Steinbeck put it.
How a Literary Road Trip Helped Me Cope with Infertility | smurguia | August 17, 2021 | Outside OnlineIn one scene, Steinbeck meets a farmer and they talk about the Nixon-Kennedy election.
How a Literary Road Trip Helped Me Cope with Infertility | smurguia | August 17, 2021 | Outside OnlineI rustled through my bag for Steinbeck and woke Murphy in the process.
How a Literary Road Trip Helped Me Cope with Infertility | smurguia | August 17, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe Washington Post followed up with an op-ed on the “Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love.”
Steinbeck, too, seemed to think that a sort of economic reckoning was close at hand when he invented the Joads in late 1938.
But often Steinbeck was traveling across the western U.S., with no good fishing or foraging to be had.
Menu for a Moveable Feast: 10 Famous Authors and Their Favorite Foods & Recipes | Nicole Villeneuve | October 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBoycott herself decamped early on, smitten by an American visitor to London, John Steinbeck IV, son of the Nobelist in literature.
How the London Olympic Games Will Revolutionize Food | Katrina Heron | July 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNone of these characters would be caught dead in a novel by John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, or Eudora Welty.
American Dreams: ‘Tobacco Road’ by Erskine Caldwell | Nathaniel Rich | April 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for Steinbeck
/ (ˈstaɪnbɛk) /
John (Ernst). 1902–68, US writer, noted for his novels about agricultural workers, esp The Grapes of Wrath (1939): Nobel prize for literature 1962
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