Fernandez is even said to be the model for the famous Oscar statuette. Steinbeck inscribes this copy to Emilio Fernandez, the famed Mexican director and actor who directed “The Pearl”, the cinematic adaptation of Hemingway’s novella, with the screenplay written by both men. John Steinbeck signed “The Grapes of Wrath”, inscribed to Emilio Fernandez. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (/ˈstaɪnbɛk/ February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.” He has been called “a giant of American letters.” During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. John Steinbeck Signed Copy of The Grapes of Wrath
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