John Steinbeck

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Portrait of John Steinbeck in a suit and tie, looking downward with a serious expression.

Gary Sinise and John Malkovich stand outdoors in rural work clothes in a publicity still from the 1992 film Of Mice and Men, with a barn in the background.

Dust jacket of The Grapes of Wrath

Henry Fonda stands in the center wearing a cap and jacket, with Darryl Hickman and Shirley Mills looking up at him in a scene from The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Steinbeck with a sampling of his life's work

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Portrait of John Steinbeck in a suit and tie, looking downward with a serious expression.

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American novelist

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Portrait of John Steinbeck in a suit and tie, looking downward with a serious expression.

John Steinbeck

American novelist John Steinbeck.

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Gary Sinise and John Malkovich stand outdoors in rural work clothes in a publicity still from the 1992 film Of Mice and Men, with a barn in the background.

Of Mice and Men

Gary Sinise (left) and John Malkovich in Of Mice and Men (1992), directed...

© 1992 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Dust jacket of The Grapes of Wrath

Dust jacket of The Grapes of Wrath

First-edition dust jacket of The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck;...

Viking Press/Penguin Group; Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc., Merchantville, NJ

Henry Fonda stands in the center wearing a cap and jacket, with Darryl Hickman and Shirley Mills looking up at him in a scene from The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

The Grapes of Wrath

Henry Fonda (center) in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), directed by John Ford.

© 1940 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; photograph from a private collection

Steinbeck with a sampling of his life's work

Steinbeck with a sampling of his life's work

John Steinbeck, acclaimed for such novels as The Grapes of Wrath (1939)...

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