![]() ![]() In 1939, Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, which garnered him significant critical acclaim, including a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. The most famous of these is 1937’s Of Mice and Men. In the following years, Steinbeck wrote several novels that focus on farm life and its discontents. In 1935, Steinbeck first found literary success with Tortilla Flat, which follows the exploits of a group of Mexican-Americans in Monterey, California. During this time he tried his hand at a career in writing, but had trouble getting his work published and so returned to California to work a series of labor jobs. ![]() He attended Stanford University in 1919, though he left without earning a degree six years later, at which point he worked as a journalist and manual laborer in New York City. John Steinbeck was born in California only two years after the turn of the 20th century. ![]()
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