Not travels with charley6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() He was a prolific writer throughout his career. This difficult period of American history was best exemplified in Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and helped Steinbeck earn a Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Subsequently, several of his most notable stories commented on the plight of homeless people, immigrants and laborers in California during and after the great American Depression. Steinbeck’s experience was unique from Hemingway’s, in that he was a general laborer and a farm worker in his youth near the area he grew up- Salinas California. ![]() ![]() Also like Hemingway, Steinbeck gained experience as a war correspondent and a newspaper journalist, was a lover of the natural environment and was a strong social skeptic. John Steinbeck was 56 years old in 1962 when he first published Travel’s with Charley: In Search of America. As a contemporary of Hemingway, Steinbeck believed in the importance of experiencing life fully to help create an atmosphere of realism in his fictional writing. ![]()
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