The Grapes of Wrath
Awards
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Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Winners
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- 1937
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- 1943
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- 1945
Radcliffe 100 Best Novels
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He was an author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen...
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