One book by this author features an early chapter describing how a woman veers to avoid a turtle, but it is eventually hit by a truck driver and flipped onto its back. One of 
One book by this author features an early chapter describing how a woman veers to avoid a turtle, but it is eventually hit by a truck driver and flipped onto its back. One of this author's novels, subtitled "A Fabrication" is named for its motorscooter enthusiast protagonist, an astronomer that becomes the king of France. Another of his novels, which ends with the protagonist saying "timshel," includes many characters whose names begin with the letters "C" and "A," such as Cyrus and Adam Trask. Jim Casy comes to visit the protagonist of another of his works, before he leaves his native Oklahoma. For 10 points, name this author of East of Eden who wrote about the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath.
One book by this author features an early chapter describing how a woman veers to avoid a turtle, but it is eventually hit by a truck driver and flipped onto its back.
John {Steinbeck}