Thursday October 6th 2011

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Thought for the Day

“I am impelled, not to squeak
like a grateful and apologetic mouse,
but to roar like a lion
out of pride in my profession.”

~ John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)



*John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr

Born: February 27, 1902 Salinas, California
Died: December 20, 1968 New York City, New York,

An American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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