18 lugl 1968 anni - John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck was born in California and attended Stanford University between various jobs. He came into contact with the poor, especially migrant farm workers and described their lives in his novels.
His greatest success came in 1939 with "The Grapes of Wrath". The novel describes how a family from Oklahoma are driven to migrate to California where they are mistreated and exploited. Other famous books by Steinbeck are "Of Mice and Men", "The Pearl and Cannery Row". Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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