Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 93. Chapters: John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, Saul Bellow, Jackson Pollock, Richard Wright, Diego Rivera, Eudora Welty, Katherine Dunham, Ralph Stackpole, Todros Geller, Mark Tobey, John Cheever, Ben Shahn, Berenice Abbott, Thomas Hart Benton, Harry Hopkins, Arshile Gorky, Studs Terkel, Jan Matulka, Grant Wood, Willem de Kooning, Albert Kotin, Philip Guston, George Biddle, Ad Reinhardt, Lewis Hine, George Rickey, Otto and Vivika Heino, Ezio Martinelli, Alice Neel, Joe Funk, Stuart Davis, Louise Nevelson, Ashot Avagyan, Paul Cadmus, Frank Yerby, Charles Seeger, Margaret Walker, Hallie Flanagan, Dorothy West, Lucile Lloyd, Edward Bruce, James Michael Newell, List of Works Progress Administration artists, Gwendolyn Knight, Nikolai Sokoloff, Belle Baranceanu, Ray Strong, Charles Pollock, Dorothy Block. Excerpt: John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He was an author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories; Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. 132 Central Avenue, Salinas, California, the Victorian home where Steinbeck lived his childhoodJohn Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. He was of German and Irish descent. Johann Adolf Grosssteinbeck, Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, had shortened the family name to Steinbeck when he immigrated to the United States. The family farm in Heiligenhaus, Germany, is still today named "Grosssteinbeck." His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, served as Monterey County treasurer. John's mother, Olive Hamilton, a former school teacher, shared Steinbeck's passion of reading and writing..