The relatively unknown fictionist, John Fante (1909-83) compared with William Saroyan and considered a forerunner of the Beats depicted Italian American experience in conflict with Anglo culture in su
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath, and his oeuvre also includes such classics as East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and The Red Pony. In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the
