American novelist John Steinbeck (1902–68) is best known for his naturalistic novels that address the lives of ordinary people and the social and economic conditions they experienced amid such events as the Great Depression. Many of his works are set in Steinbeck’s native central California. His most famous book is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which depicts the struggles of the dispossessed Joads as they migrate from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California during the Great Depression. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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