Which American Nobel Laureate wrote 'The Grapes Of Wrath' and 'East Of Eden'?
"went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden"" (King James Version). Other biblical parallels in the novel include: In the novel, Adam, Samuel, and Lee have a significant conversation in which they realize that since Abel died before he had children, they themselves are the descendants of Cain. However, this does not correspond to the text of Genesis, which states that contemporary humans are descended neither from Cain nor Abel, but from Adam and Eve's third son, Seth. As he wrote the novel, Steinbeck went through a number"
"""East of Eden"" (1952), and the novellas ""Of Mice and Men"" (1937) and ""The Red Pony"" (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists. Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was"
"Robert DeMott Robert DeMott (born November 22, 1943) is an American author, scholar, and editor best known for his influential scholarship on writer John Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1939), and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Robert DeMott was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1943, the only child of James and Colletta DeMott. Until the age of eight, he lived with his parents on the estate of well known political artist and fine-art illuminator Arthur Szyk, who published ""The New Order"" (1941) and ""Ink & Blood"" (1946) and illustrated numerous Biblical"
"writing, as authors have sought to evaluate an era that caused both financial and emotional trauma. Perhaps the most noteworthy and famous novel written on the subject is ""The Grapes of Wrath"", published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for the work. The novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression. Steinbeck's ""Of Mice and Men"" is another important novella about a journey during the"
"Award at a ceremony in Salinas, CA. DeMott is an internationally respected expert on Steinbeck, having written authoritative introductions and notes for three Steinbeck novels in Penguin Book's Classic Series—""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1992, rev. 2006); ""To a God Unknown"" (1996), and ""Sweet Thursday"" (2008). He also served as main editor for three volumes of the Library of America's series on Steinbeck—""Novels and Stories, 1932–1937"" (1994); ""The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936–1941"" (1996); and ""Novels, 1942–1952"" (2001)—and co-edited a fourth—""Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947–1962"" (2007)—with his former doctoral student Brian Railsback. He consulted on and appeared"
"""The Grapes of Wrath,"" novelist John Steinbeck saw the migrants becoming active union and New Deal agitators demanding higher wages and better housing conditions. Steinbeck did not foresee that most Okies would move into well-paid jobs in war industries in the 1940s. The children and grandchildren of Okies seldom returned to Oklahoma or farming, and are now concentrated in California's cities and suburbs. Long-term cultural impacts include a commitment to evangelical Protestantism, a love of country music, political conservatism, and strong support for traditional moral and cultural values. It has been said that some Oklahomans who stayed and lived through"
"decades. Another film based on the novella was made in 1992 starring Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie. Steinbeck followed this wave of success with ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1939), based on newspaper articles about migrant agricultural workers that he had written in San Francisco. It is commonly considered his greatest work. According to ""The New York Times"", it was the best-selling book of 1939 and 430,000 copies had been printed by February 1940. In that month, it won the National Book Award, favorite fiction book of 1939, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. Later"
"of her ashes were scattered at sea and another portion interred with her husband Nunnally Johnson in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Actor Jack Johnson is her grandson. Dorris Bowdon Dorris Estelle Bowdon (December 27, 1914 – August 9, 2005) was an American actress, best known for her role as ""Rosasharn"" in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"", starring Henry Fonda. Dorris Estelle Bowdon was born on December 27, 1914 in Coldwater, Mississippi, one of seven children of Lillian and James Bowdon. Bowdon was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s. When"
"Grapes of Wrath"" and captures the writer's enduring legacy as an engaged and socially aware artist. From the 1930s on Steinbeck wrote about ""the people,"" his heart open to the longing, loneliness, despair and triumph of those on the edges. Americans were his people, and his last book, ""America and Americans"" (1966) expresses his enduring love for a democratic nation. Thomas Steinbeck wrote that the awardee is a ""planetary patriot,"" which means, a person who, in keeping with Maurice Steinbeck's understanding of the highest aspirations of an artist, ""stands up against the stones of condemnation, and speaks for those who"
"Dorris Bowdon Dorris Estelle Bowdon (December 27, 1914 – August 9, 2005) was an American actress, best known for her role as ""Rosasharn"" in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"", starring Henry Fonda. Dorris Estelle Bowdon was born on December 27, 1914 in Coldwater, Mississippi, one of seven children of Lillian and James Bowdon. Bowdon was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s. When she was 20 years old, talent scout Ivan Kahn found her in Memphis, Tennessee, and brought her to Hollywood, California, for a screen test with 20th Century Fox. She ""didn't fare"
"Olympia Vernon Olympia Vernon (born May 22, 1973) is an African-American author who has published three novels: ""Eden"" (2002), ""Logic"" (2004), and ""A Killing In This Town"" (2006). ""Eden"" won the 2004 Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Vernon was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and grew up in Mount Hermon, Louisiana and Osyka, Mississippi. The family had seven children. Her father, Fletcher Williams, Jr., graduated from the University of Mississippi. Vernon attended South Pike High School in Magnolia, Mississippi. She received a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice from Southeastern Louisiana University"
"George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. His novels include ""The Finished Man"","" Double Vision"", and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of ""Death of the Fox"", ""The Succession"", and ""Entered from the Sun"". He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for many years, at the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin. George Palmer Garrett was born in"
"while bicycling across the Williamsburg Bridge. Adam Purple Adam Purple (born David Lloyd Wilkie; November 10, 1930 – September 14, 2015) was an activist and urban Edenist or ""Guerrilla Gardener"" famous in New York City for his ""Garden of Eden"". His birth name was David Lloyd Wilkie, although he went by many others, including ""Rev. Les Ego"". Born in Independence, Missouri, to Richard and Juanita Wilkie as the middle child of seven, his father was a machinist, carpenter and blacksmith while Juanita was a seamstress, gardener and bookkeeper. In 1945, Richard was trying to put out a fire when he"
"Adam Purple Adam Purple (born David Lloyd Wilkie; November 10, 1930 – September 14, 2015) was an activist and urban Edenist or ""Guerrilla Gardener"" famous in New York City for his ""Garden of Eden"". His birth name was David Lloyd Wilkie, although he went by many others, including ""Rev. Les Ego"". Born in Independence, Missouri, to Richard and Juanita Wilkie as the middle child of seven, his father was a machinist, carpenter and blacksmith while Juanita was a seamstress, gardener and bookkeeper. In 1945, Richard was trying to put out a fire when he was electrocuted and died. Adam served"
"of them came from Oklahoma) traveled to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages. Author John Steinbeck later wrote ""The Grapes of Wrath"", which won the Pulitzer Prize, and ""Of Mice and Men"" about such people. Negative effects included bank closures and overburdened relief and health agencies. Economic migrants also had mixed success as native workers in many areas resented the intense competition for dwindling jobs. The National Drought Mitigation Center has reported that"
"""The Pearl"", ""Of Mice and Men"" is one of Steinbeck's best known works. It was made into a movie three times, in 1939 starring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., and Betty Field, in 1982 starring Randy Quaid, Robert Blake and Ted Neeley, and in 1992 starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. The ""Grapes of Wrath"" is set in the Great Depression and describes a family of sharecroppers, the Joads, who were driven from their land due to the dust storms of the Dust Bowl. The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some critics found it"
"In the mid-twentieth century, American drama was dominated by the work of playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, as well as by the maturation of the American musical. Depression era writers included John Steinbeck, notable for his novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Henry Miller assumed a distinct place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels were banned from the US. From the end of World War II until the early 1970s many popular works in modern American literature were produced, like Harper Lee's ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". America's involvement in World War II influenced works such as"
"novel, ""The Grapes of Wrath"", and the film adaptation starring Henry Fonda. Avant-garde artists like Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall fled Europe following the outbreak of World War II. These artists arrived in the United States, where a subculture of surrealism and avant-garde experimentation developed in New York City, becoming the new centre of the art world. American fashion remained gangster orientated, with gangs gravitating around immigrant and racial cultures. In California, Hispanic youth developed the distinctive zoot suit fashion, such as the black widows, women who dressed in black. The zoot suiters use of language involved rhyming"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"after having suffered from myasthenia gravis for some years. He was buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery. George Garrett's papers are housed in the Duke University Special Collections Library. George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2004. His novels include ""The Finished Man"","" Double Vision"", and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of ""Death of the Fox"", ""The Succession"", and ""Entered from the Sun"". He worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Cambridge University and, for"
"Gloria Oden Gloria Catherine Oden (October 30, 1923 – December 16, 2011) was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for ""Resurrections"", a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of her mother and sister in their home in Washington, D.C. Gloria Oden was born in Yonkers, New York, on October 30, 1923. As the youngest daughter of six born to an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church minister and a college-educated mother, Oden was instilled early on with a respect for education and intellect – she, along"
"John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"", it examines the lives of migrant farm workers in California and condemns the politics and consequences of large-scale agribusiness. Shortly before its publication, McWilliams accepted an offer from incoming Governor Culbert Olson to head California's Division of Immigration and Housing. Over his four-year term (1938-1942), he focused on improving agricultural working conditions and wages, but his hopes for major reform deteriorated with the advent of World War II. During the 1940s, McWilliams lived in Echo Park, California, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. He owned his home at 2041 Alvarado Street until the 1970s, well"
"John Ford John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""The Searchers"" (1956), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as the film ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1940). His four Academy Awards for Best Director (in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952) remain a record. One of the films for which he won the award, ""How Green Was My Valley"", also won Best Picture. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford"
"According to Kirkus Reviews, ""Berendt does great justice to an exalted city that has rightly fascinated the likes of Henry James, Robert Browning, and many filmmakers throughout the world."" (August 1, 2005) John Berendt John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book ""Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"", which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Berendt grew up in Syracuse, New York, where both of his parents were writers. As an English major at Harvard University, he worked on the staff of the ""Harvard"
"Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in"
"comedy to provide humor at Jim's expense, and ended up confirming rather than challenging late-19th century racist stereotypes. John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"" often is cited as the most successful social protest novel of the 20th Century, Part of its impact stemmed from its passionate depiction of the plight of the poor, and in fact, many of Steinbeck's contemporaries attacked his social and political views. Bryan Cordyack writes, ""Steinbeck was attacked as a propagandist and a socialist from both the left and the right of the political spectrum. The most fervent of these attacks came"
"Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ""The Graveyard Book"" (2008). In 2013, ""The Ocean at the End of"
"National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery"
"John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery Row"" (1945), the multi-generation epic"
"In 1982, two years after the Tony for ""Morning's at Seven"", Osborn won the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. Paul Osborn Paul Osborn (September 4, 1901 – May 12, 1988) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Osborn's notable original plays are ""The Vinegar Tree"", ""Oliver Oliver"", and ""Morning's at Seven"" and among his several successful adaptations, ""On Borrowed Time"" has proved particularly popular. Counted among his best-known screenplays would be the adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""East of Eden"" and ""Wild River"" for his friend Elia Kazan, ""South Pacific"" and ""Sayonara"" directed by Joshua Logan,"
"screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (scripted by Nunnally Johnson and photographed by Gregg Toland) was both a big box office hit and a major critical success, and it is still widely regarded as one of the best Hollywood films of the era. Noted critic Andrew Sarris described it as the movie that transformed Ford from ""a storyteller of the screen into America's cinematic poet laureate"". Ford's third movie in a year and his third consecutive film with Fonda, it grossed $1.1 million in the US in its first year and won two Academy Awards—Ford's second 'Best"
"Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa). Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. In 2009, her novel ""The Plague of Doves"" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In November 2012,"
"1954 Vining received the Women's National Book Association Skinner Award, for ""meritorious work"" in her special field"". She received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Wilmington College in 1962. Elizabeth Gray Vining Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining (October 6, 1902 – November 27, 1999) was an American professional librarian and author who tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince. She was also a noted author, whose children's book ""Adam of the Road"" received the Newbery Medal in 1943. Elizabeth Janet Gray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 6, 1902. She was a graduate of Germantown"