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JohN steINbecK
1902 – 1968, american
nobel prize winner
“steinbeck shaped a geography of
conscience.” —d o n delillo
The Portable Steinbeck
Edited by Pascal Covici, Jr.
This grand sampling of Steinbeck’s most
important works includes two complete
novels, Of Mice and Men and The Red
Pony, as well as excerpts from many of his
other books, short stories, and his 1962
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
736 pp. 978-0-14-015002-5 $18.00
The Acts of King Arthur
and His Noble Knights
Foreword by Christopher Paolini
Edited by Chase Horton
This retelling of Malory’s beloved
Arthurian stories—John Steinbeck’s only
224 penguin classics
work of fantasy—features the icons of
Arthurian legend, including King Arthur,
Merlin, Morgan le Fay, the incomparable
Queen Guinevere, and Arthur’s purest
knight, Sir Lancelot of the Lake. These
enduring tales of loyalty and betrayal
in the time of Camelot flicker with the
wonder and magic of an era past but not
forgotten.
416 pp. 978-0-14-310545-9 $16.00
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
America and Americans
And Selected Nonfiction
Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and
Jackson J. Benson
This comprehensive volume of Steinbeck’s
best nonfiction writing features a wide
range of topics, from reflections on the
places he lived and visited and the people
he met along the way to his views on
writing, politics, and the events of his
time.
448 pp. 978-0-14-243741-4 $16.00
Bombs Away
The Story of a Bomber Team
Introduction by James H. Meredith
Bombs Away is John Steinbeck’s nonfiction
account of his experience with
the U.S. Army Air Force bomber crew
during World War II. Now, for the first
time since its original publication in 1942,
Penguin Classics presents this exclusive
JohN steINbecK
Born and raised in Salinas, California, John Steinbeck attended Stanford
University from 1919 until 1925 without attaining a degree before working at a
series of mostly blue-collar jobs and embarking on his literary career. Profoundly
committed to social progress, Steinbeck’s novels, such as The Grapes of Wrath,
Cannery Row, and Tortilla Flat, raised issues of labor exploitation during the
Great Depression. The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and
the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Travels with Charley in Search of America, a travelogue
chronicling his tour of the United States with his dog, was published in 1962,
the same year he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1964, Steinbeck was
presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B.
Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968.