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Of Mice and Men and the Dust Bowl

Setting of Of Mice and Men

  • Salinas Valley in Soledad, CA
  • Many men are out of work and looking for jobs on ranches
  • The Great Depression brought nearly a half a century of low wages. People were homeless, malnourished, and forced to leave their homes to find work.

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John Steinbeck

(1902-1968)

  • born in Salinas, California, came from a family of moderate means.
  • He worked his way through college at Stanford University but never graduated.
  • In 1925 he went to New York, where he tried for a few years to establish himself as a free-lance writer, but he failed and returned to California

The Dust Bowl

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Duration and Devastation

Steinbeck won the

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1962

  • The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade.
  • Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains.
  • The agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Depression whose effects were felt worldwide.
  • The movement of people on the Plains was also profound.

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