Chapter 12: Great Plains & Prairies - Grasslands Literature

Chapter 12 is about the Great Plains and Prairies region, which Monterey County is not a part of. The chapter does talk about grasslands literature and The Grapes of Wrath, which relates to Monterey County.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck is the Nobel Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and was born and raised in Salinas, which is in Monterey County. His writing often revolves around characters/issues of the Salinas Valley and many of his most famous novels like Mice and Men, East of Eden, Tortilla Flat, and Cannery Row take place there and at Monterey. When I was in Salinas, I saw the National Steinbeck Center, which is a museum about John Steinbeck. The museum has the largest number of Steinbeck archives, as well as many exhibitions about him, his work, and his beliefs. The exhibitions are divided into three sections: literature, agriculture, and art & culture.

 Museum in Salinas, CA

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