Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was one of America’s most influential and prolific writers of the 20th century. Many of his books described the Depression-era hardships of the working class in his native California. Susan Shillinglaw is Professor of English at San Jose State...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for his 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath), American writer John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was also awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his literary contributions. Professor of English literature and creative writing at Middlebury College in Vermont, Jay Parini is also a poet, novelist, and biographer...