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John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was an American novelist whose memories of California gave his fiction a strong regional identity. He wrote about people whose need for work, security, dignity, or independence placed them at the mercy of employers, banks, landowners, and other institutions. His direct, descriptive prose could serve the compact tragedy of Of Mice and Men or widen into the family journey and collective account of dispossession in The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck also worked beyond the social tragedy most closely associated with him. East of Eden turns the Salinas Valley into the setting for a multigenerational study of guilt, rejection, and moral choice, while Cannery Row uses comedy and an episodic community structure to portray friendship and dignity amid scarcity. Across these changes in scale and tone, he remained attentive to the ways economic conditions shape relationships and restrict choice.

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