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Facts about the author:
· John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas is known as the "salad bowl of the nation"
· Throughout his life, Steinbeck used Pigasus, a flying pig, to symbolize himself. Some of his reasons for doing so - "a lumbering soul but trying to fly" and "not enough wingspread but plenty of intention"
· Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath in 1940. In 1962, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature
· Steinbeck was a war correspondent during World War II
· In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson presented John Steinbeck with a United States Medal of Freedom
· The Grapes of Wrath is considered to be Steinbeck's finest work. It was made into a movie with Henry Fonda playing Tom Joad
Genre:
Epic; realistic fiction
Setting:
The book starts off on the family's farm in Oklahoma and follows their path through America to California.
Theme:
Wrath

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