[DOC] [TLE] John Steinbeck - Wikipedia [PAR] John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902  December 20, 1968) was an 
American author of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five 
collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (
1935) and Cannery .... Steinbeck achieved his first critical success with Tortilla 
Flat (1935), a novel... [DOC] [TLE] Octavio Paz - Wikipedia [PAR] Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He is considered by 
many as one of the ... They had met in 1935. ... He met his first wife Elena Garro a 
writer in Mexico City and was married to her in 1937, they ... He founded his 
magazine Plural (19701976) with a group of liberal Mexican and Latin 
American writers. [DOC] [TLE] Tortilla Flat - Wikipedia [PAR] Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. 
The novel was the author's first clear critical and commercial success. The book 
portrays a group of paisanos - literally, countrymen - a small band .... In his essay, 
Steinbeck's Mexican Americans, Charles Metzger largely defended the writer's... [DOC] [TLE] John Steinbeck | Biography, Books and Facts - Famous Authors [PAR] John Steinbeck Biography - An accomplished American writer who won the 
Nobel ... His deep interest in the subject and authenticity came from his own ... 
However, Tortilla Flat (1935) gave Steinbeck a first taste of recognition and ... The 
novel, with a hint of humor is a story revolving around a group of Mexican 
Americans. [DOC] [TLE] John Steinbeck Biography - eNotes.com [PAR] Examine the life, times, and work of John Steinbeck through detailed author ... He 
came to know well the Mexican-American workers alongside whom he ... his 
apprenticeship could be said to be over: In that year, his first novel, Cup of ... 
Finally, the publication of Tortilla Flat (1935) made the breakthrough; the book 
was a... [DOC] [TLE] Looking for Humanistic Stories: John Steinbeck as Field ... - JStor [PAR] had been disputed in his recently published novel, The Grapes of Wrath: "Listen, I 
know ... world of Danny and the Monterey paisanos to American readers with ... of 
the vernacular, John Steinbeck created works that stimulate the imagi- nation, stir 
.... stories Steinbeck first solicited from Mexican coworkers at Spreckels Sugar. [DOC] [TLE] American National Biography Online: Steinbeck, John [PAR] 1968), author, was born John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr., in Salinas, California, the son 
... Never wealthy, the family was nonetheless prominent in the small town of 
3,000, ... the time both to write several drafts of his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), 
and, ... came not a biography but one of the best strike novels written in the 
twentieth... [DOC] [TLE] Farm Labor in the 1930s - Rural Migration News | Migration Dialogue [PAR] During the 1930s, some 1.3 million Americans from the Midwest and southwest ... 
She begins with the role of prominent Communists in the 1933 cotton strike, ... 
Loftis emphasizes that John Steinbeck wanted to become a writer in the 1930s 
and ... in the summer of 1935, to build the first two of what would become a chain 
of... [DOC] [TLE] John Steinbeck - Jacana [PAR] Dec 23, 2008 ... John Ernst Steinbeck, American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, 
was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman ... 
as a foreign correspondent; from this experience came such non-fiction as .... The 
rollicking Tortilla Flat (1935), his first commercial success, relates... [DOC] [TLE] The Steinbeck Institute -About John Steinbeck [PAR] John Steinbeck, American Writer ... John Steinbeck was born in the farming town 
of Salinas, California on 27 February 1902. ... Never wealthy, the family was 
nonetheless prominent in the small town of 3,000, for both parents ... he wrote 
several drafts of his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929) about the pirate Henry Morgan
, and... [DOC] [TLE] John Steinbeck

Question: John Steinbeck first came to prominence with this 1935 novel about a group of Mexican-Americans
Answer: Tortilla Flat