The book collects some famous short stories by well-known American writers, some of them received prizes and honors in the US, such as Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Award for Fiction. Reading these stories is helpful to better understanding of American culture and society. This description may be from another edition of this product.
John Steinbeck, Jr. (born February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) was an American writer best known for the novel Grapes of Wrath, for which he won a Pullitzer Prize, and the novella Of Mice and Men. He wrote 27 books in total, including six non-fiction books, and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Despite his literary success, Steinbeck remains a controversial author, due to anti-captialist themes in Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath, and his books have been banned from various schools and libraries since their publication. Other notable Steinbeck works include East of Eden (1952), Travels with Charley (1960), and In Dubious Battle (1936).
