John Steinbeck Quote
At last he said, Did you come out of the big mountains?Gitano shook his head slowly. No, I walked down the Salinas Valley.The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head.
John Steinbeck
At last he said, Did you come out of the big mountains?Gitano shook his head slowly. No, I walked down the Salinas Valley.The afternoon thought would not let Joey go. Did you ever go into the big mountains back there?The old dark eyes grew fixed, and their light turned inward on the years that were living in Gitano's head.
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About John Steinbeck
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, 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 East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had 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.