


Steinbeck was the youngest of the four American writers and the most hopeful about the future, despite personal problems, political enemies, and attacks by critics. Uniquely, books by author John Steinbeck depict the suffering of individuals with the goal of helping the masses understand other people and cope with their own lives. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway.Īmong these American writers, only John Steinbeck lived long enough to experience the turbulent 1960s and frame important issues that trouble us today-political tyranny, economic inequality, and the willful destruction of our planet. Four American writers born at the turn of the century defined modern America: John Steinbeck, F.
