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American writer (1902–1968)
Also known as: Jeffery Ernest Steinbeck, John Ernest Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck Jr, Steinbeck, Джон Стейнбек
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Erskine Caldwell1903–1987ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetDepression-era portrayals of rural poverty and sharecroppers in the American South. (AI reason)
John Dos Passos1896–1970ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSocially engaged panoramic fiction depicting American workers and economic upheaval. (AI reason)
Willa Cather1873–1947ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLyrical novels of the land and immigrant settlers shaping the American West. (AI reason)
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- Wallace Stegner1909–1993ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Western American fiction centered on landscape, family and the cost of the frontier dream. (AI reason)
Harper Lee1926–2016ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHumane, morally searching portrait of injustice in a small Depression-era community. (AI reason)
Upton Sinclair1878–1968ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSocial-protest novels exposing the exploitation of laborers and the working poor. (AI reason)
Carson McCullers1917–1967ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCompassionate studies of lonely outsiders and marginalized people in small-town America. (AI reason)
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- The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
- Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
- The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
- Of Mice and Men (1937)
- Fiction 100