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For which book did John Steinbeck win the Pulitzer Prize?

  • The Grapes of Wrath

  • Of Mice and Men

  • East of Eden

  • Cannery Row

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John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1940. The book tells the story of the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry.
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