Tortilla Flat

Her works include Tender Buttons (1914), The Geographical History of America (1936), The Mother of Us All (1949), and Patriarchal Poetry (1953). John Steinbeck (1902-68) John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, and intermittently attended Stanford University, where he majored in marine biology. His first book was a romantic depiction of the career of buccaneer Henry Morgan (Cup of Gold [1929]), but Tortilla Flat (1935), set in Monterey, California, was his first popular success. This was followed by In Dubious Battle (1936), about striking migrant workers, Of Mice and Men (1937), and a collection, The Long Valley (1938). The struggle of migrant workers for survival and dignity is again the theme of The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954), set on the Monterey waterfront, are more lighthearted, but Steinbeck's serious moral and social concerns are foremost in East of Eden (1952) and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961). Travels with Charley was published in 1962, the same year that Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in literature ...»