John Steinbeck mb-width 3361 showing boats and barges on

showing boats and barges on the water

Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) laughing into microphone

A burly Canadian kicks a representative of the Irish Fenian movement out of Canada and back to America where President Grant is waiting

from Wastgota-resa (Stockholm

Plate 68 from the book Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig

John Steinbeck mb-width 3361 showing boats and barges onJohn Steinbeck, American novelist, c1939. John Ernst Steinbeck III (1902 1968) won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, dealing with the plight of family displaced to California by the Oklahoma dustbowls of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Among his other best known works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and East of Eden (1952). In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.