CLIL LITERATURE JOHN STEINBECK, THE VOICE OF FARMERS’ MIGRATION (1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California, in a middle-class family. He attended Stanford University but left without graduating. In 1925, he went to New York, hoping to start a career as a journalist, but he failed and returned to California in 1927. After publishing some novels and short stories, Steinbeck first became widely known with (1935). Steinbeck's novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic problems of rural workers. After the humor of , he moved on to more serious fiction with the novel (1936), which deals with the of the migratory on Californian plantations. John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat Tortilla Flat In Dubious Battle strikes fruit pickers This was followed by (1937), one of his best works, and a series of short stories collected in the volume (1938). In 1939, he published what is considered his masterpiece – . His later works are (1952), (1961), and (1962). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Of Mice and Men The Long Valley The of Grapes Wrath East of Eden The Winter of Our Discontent Travels with Charley John Steinbeck died in New York City in 1968. is set in the Great Depression and describes the migration of a family of small farmers, the Joads, from their land in the Midwest because of the Dust Bowl* to the "promised land" of California. The novel was very popular with readers and won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940 and was adapted as a film directed by John Ford in the same year. The Grapes of Wrath *The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when terrible dust storms affected the south-central United States, in particular Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The Dust Bowl has come to symbolize the social and economic problems of the entire nation during the 1930s. 13 Answer the following questions. Where was John Steinbeck born? How did he spend his early life? What novels did he write? What major international prize did he win? How can Steinbeck's novels be classified? What does the novel deal with? The Grapes of Wrath What prizes did the novel win? How was the novel adapted? GLOSSARY : : : : fruit picker raccoglitore di frutta grapes grappoli strike sciopero wrath ira, furore