Steinbeck
[stahyn-bek]
- John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/, 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
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The 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.
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While Steinbeck journeyed with his loyal French poodle, Buzzell has only a 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente as a companion.
Steinbeck wrote his classic novel Grapes of Wrath after working closely with a radical union of farm and packing-house workers.
Steinbeck
- 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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