Examples of John Steinbeck in the following topics:
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- John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California , where he set many of his stories.
- Steinbeck often wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life.
- A contemporaryof Steinbeck, Nathanael West is most famous for two short novels.
- Although his major works, including Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring , would not be free of the label of obscenity until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers, and paved the way for sexually frank 1960s novels by John Updike , Philip Roth , Gore Vidal , John Rechy , and William Styron .
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addition to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, the movement of writers and artists also
loosely includes John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Alan Seeger, John Steinbeck,
Sherwood Anderson, Aldous Huxley, Malcolm Crowley, Isadora Duncan, James Joyce,
Henry Miller, and T.S.
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- Author John Steinbeck later wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Of Mice and Men, about these migrant workers and their struggles.
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- John Steinbeck (1902–1968) became the quintessential author of the era.
- Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night,
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy, Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, an
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.
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- Author John
Steinbeck later wrote his novels, Of Mice and Men and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath, about migrant laborers and their struggles.
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- In addition to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, this movement of
writers and artists also loosely includes John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson,
Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Henry Miller, and T.S.
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- When Virginia congressman John Randolph broke with Jefferson in 1806, his political faction became known as the "Old Republicans," or "quids."
- Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke was the leader of the "Old Republican" faction of Democratic-Republicans that insisted on a strict adherence to the Constitution and opposed any innovations.
- John Randolph was a planter and a congressman from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also as minister to Russia throughout his career.
- Photograph at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington of John Randolph of Roanoke, VA.
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- John Adams, the second president to hold office, believed in a strong federal government and an expansion of executive power.
- As the second president to hold office, Federalist John Adams followed Washington's example in stressing civic virtue and republican values.
- After the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, Democratic-Republicans began to use the term "the reign of witches" to describe the Federalist party and John Adams.
- John Adams was the second President of the United States, elected in 1796.
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- Bush was elected for a second term when he narrowly defeated Democratic candidate John Kerry.
- Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior Senator from Massachusetts.
- Kerry's running mate, John Edwards, who had also run as a Democratic primary candidate, received one electoral vote for president from an elector from Minnesota.
- On July 6, 2004, John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate, shortly before the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston held later that month.
- The split vote in Minnesota denotes an elector's vote counted for Vice President nominee John Edwards.
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- John Brown, a radical abolitionist from the North, led an attack on the
federal arsenal Harper's Ferry in 1859.
- Many Northern reactions to John Brown's raid are best characterized as
baffled reproach.
- The psychological significance of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
cannot be overestimated.
- The South found the North's ambivalent attitude toward John Brown's
raid flabbergasting.
- Compare how Southern and Northern states responded to John Brown’s raid