This author's characters include the bouncer Joe Valery. In one book by this author, Lee discusses the meaning of the word "timshel" with a group of rabbis, and Faye is poisoned by Cathy, who takes over a brothel.
This author's characters include the bouncer Joe Valery. In one book by this author, Lee discusses the meaning of the word "timshel" with a group of rabbis, and Faye is poisoned by Cathy, who takes over a brothel. This man created the narrator Samuel Hamilton, who tells us that Caleb failed to impress his father Adam Trask. In another novel by this author, a violent strike kills the former preacher Jim Casy, and Rose of Sharon breastfeeds a man after her baby is stillborn. For 10 points, name this American author of East of Eden, who detailed the Joad family's struggles getting to California from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath.
This author's characters include the bouncer Joe Valery. In one book by this author, Lee discusses the meaning of the word "timshel" with a group of rabbis, and Faye is poisoned by Cathy, who takes over a brothel.
John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior 