John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
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"I never wrote two books alike", once said John Steinbeck (Shaw, 10). That
may be true, but I think that he wrote many of his novels and short stories
based on many of the same views. He often focused on social problems, like the “
haves” verses the "have nots", and made the reader want to e ....
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.... a considerable reading of the Greek and Roman historians, and the
medieval and Renaissance fabalists and the biological sciences (Shaw 11). He
then moved to New York and tried his hand as a construction worker and as a
reporter for the American. (Covici , xxxv). Steinbeck then moved back to
California and lived with his wife at Pacific Grove. In 1934, he wrote for the
San Franciso News, he was assigned to write several articles about the 3,000
migrants flooded in at Kings County. The plight ....
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