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Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Steinbeck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.29h x 5.66w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780142000687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAge Range:\u003c\/b\u003e 18-UP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e16707 \/ Cannery Row\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. 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Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: \u003cb\u003eIn Dubious Battle\u003c\/b\u003e (1936), \u003cb\u003eOf Mice and Men\u003c\/b\u003e (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, \u003cb\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/b\u003e (1939). \u003cb\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/b\u003e won both the \u003cb\u003eNational Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e in 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with \u003cb\u003eThe Forgotten Village\u003c\/b\u003e (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with \u003cb\u003eSea of Cortez\u003c\/b\u003e (1941). 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