Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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Selected Works:

Cup of Gold - 1927
The Pastures of Heaven - 1932
The Red Pony - 1933
To a God Unknown - 1933
Tortilla Flat - 1935
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath - 1936
In Dubious Battle - 1936
Of Mice and Men - 1937
The Long Valley - 1938
The Grapes of Wrath - 1939
Forgotten Village - 1941
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research - 1941
The Moon Is Down - 1942
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team - 1942
Cannery Row - 1945
The Wayward Bus - 1947
The Pearl - 1947
A Russian Journal - 1948
Burning Bright - 1950
The Log from the Sea of Cortez - 1951
East of Eden - 1952
Sweet Thursday - 1954
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication - 1957
Once There Was A War - 1958
The Winter of Our Discontent - 1961
Travels with Charley: In Search of America - 1962
America and Americans - 1966
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters - 1969
Viva Zapata! - 1975
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - 1976
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath - 1989

Filmography:

1939 - Of Mice and Men - directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., and Betty Field
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath - directed by John Ford, featuring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell and John Carradine
1941 - The Forgotten Village - directed by Herbert Kline, narrated by Burgess Meredith
1942 - Tortilla Flat - directed by Victor Fleming, featuring Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr and John Garfield
1943 - The Moon is Down - directed by Irving Pichel, featuring Lee J. Cobb and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
1944 - Lifeboat - directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Tallulah Bankhead, Hume Cronyn, and John Hodiak
1944 - A Medal for Benny - directed by Irving Pichel, featuring Dorothy Lamour and Arturo de Cordova
1947 - La Perla - The Pearl, Mexico - directed by Emilio Fernández, featuring Pedro Armendáriz and María Elena Marqués
1949 - The Red Pony - directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, and Louis Calhern
1952 - Viva Zapata! - directed by Elia Kazan, featuring Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn and Jean Peters
1955 - East of Eden - directed by Elia Kazan, featuring James Dean, Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet, and Raymond Massey
1956 - The Wayward Bus - directed by Victor Vicas, featuring Rick Jason, Jayne Mansfield, and Joan Collins
1961 - Flight - featuring Efrain Ramírez and Arnelia Cortez
1962 - Ikimize bir dünya - Of Mice and Men, Turkey
1972 - Topoli - Of Mice and Men, Iran
1982 - Cannery Row - directed by David S. Ward, featuring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger
1992 - Of Mice and Men - directed by Gary Sinise and starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.                          

Mother  Olive Hamilton Steinbeck
Father John Steinbeck Sr.                          

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Steinbeck into the California Hall of Fame - December 5, 2007.                          

The Grapes of Wrath was banned by school boards In August 1939.
The Grapes of Wrath was burned in Salinas on two different occasions.
The American Library Association Steinbeck was one of the ten most frequently banned authors from 1990 to 2004, with Of Mice and Men ranking sixth out of 100 such banned books in the United States.