"‘The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.
It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the
Salinas River winds and twists up the centre until it falls at last into
Monterey Bay.’ So begins John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel East of Eden. Steinbeck was simply one of the greatest English language writers of
all time. His works primarily concerned the working classes of the first
half of the 20th Century and the moral minutiae of their everyday
lives. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the
committee praising his ‘realistic and imaginative writings, combining as
they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.’ ...”
2012 July: East of Eden, 2019 January: Tortilla Flat (1935), 2020 July: How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality
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