Steinbeck

[ stahyn-bek ]

noun

1. John (Ernst) [urnst], 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel Prize 1962.

Steinbeck

/ ˈstaɪnbɛk /

noun

1. SteinbeckJohn (Ernst)19021968MUSWRITING: writer John ( Ernst ). 1902–68, US writer, noted for his novels about agricultural workers, esp The Grapes of Wrath (1939): Nobel prize for literature 1962

Example Sentences

Steinbeck said people are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside.

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They 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.

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In one scene, Steinbeck meets a farmer and they talk about the Nixon-Kennedy election.

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I rustled through my bag for Steinbeck and woke Murphy in the process.

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The Washington Post followed up with an op-ed on the “Recession Only Steinbeck Could Love.”

From The Daily Beast

Steinbeck, too, seemed to think that a sort of economic reckoning was close at hand when he invented the Joads in late 1938.

From The Daily Beast

But often Steinbeck was traveling across the western U.S., with no good fishing or foraging to be had.

From The Daily Beast

Boycott herself decamped early on, smitten by an American visitor to London, John Steinbeck IV, son of the Nobelist in literature.

From The Daily Beast

None of these characters would be caught dead in a novel by John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, or Eudora Welty.

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