![]() ![]() This is a book to be read slowly for its savor. A rugged and passionate adventure of self-identity, Steinbeck's vision of the changing world still speaks to us prophetically through the decades. His 10,000-mile journey took him through almost forty states, where he saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. ![]() Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five novels and won the Nobel Prize in 1962. He worked as a laborer and a journalist, and in 1935, when he published Tortilla Flat, he achieved popular success and financial security. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty, insight and a humorous eye - the gamut of America and the people who inhabited it. John Steinbeck (19021968) was born in Salinas, California. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of the American people. In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. ![]()
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