February 27
Why Famous: Steinbeck's work sought to detail the
rural working class in America and their economic and social conditions.
His most famous work "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939,
followed a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers escaping the dust bowl for
California and won the Pulitzer prize in 1940.
His other works included "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and "East of
Eden" (1952). Many of his works were filmed in his own lifetime, with James
Dean making his starring debut in "East of Eden".
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