John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he is most well-known for his novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), both of which examine the lives of the working class during the Great Depression.

Trivia

To symbolize himself, Steinbeck used the stamp of a Pigasus, a flying pig, and the phrase Ad Astra Per Alia Porci (To the stars on wings of pigs.)

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In recognition of Steinbeck's work with marine biologist Ed Ricketts, a sea slug species, Eubranchus steinbecki, was named after him in 1987.

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Ed Ricketts - Sea slug

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Bruce Springsteen's song and album The ghost of Tom Joad are written with reference to the character in The Grapes of Wrath, as is Woody Guthrie's "Tom Joad." http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.song.tomjoad.html

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Bruce Springsteen - The ghost of Tom Joad - Woody Guthrie

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