That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by h… - John Steinbeck

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That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath · January 8, 2002 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968) was an American writer. A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, his works include the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Great Depression.

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Birth Name: Jeffery Ernest Steinbeck

Alternative Names: John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. • John Ernst Steinbeck • John Ernest Steinbeck • John Ernst Steinbeck Jr • Steinbeck

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That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father. - John Steinbeck

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