A tinker discards Elisa Allen's flowers in this author's short story "The Chrysanthemums."  
A tinker discards Elisa Allen's flowers in this author's short story "The Chrysanthemums."  This author wrote Sweet Thursday, which was the sequel to a book whose characters include the store owner Lee Chong, and Mack, who throws a birthday party for Doc, a marine biologist. Characters in another novel by this author include a former preacher named Jim Casy, a woman who breastfeeds a starving man, and members of the Joad family, who migrate from Oklahoma to California. For 10 points, name this author of Cannery Row and The Grapes of Wrath.
A tinker discards Elisa Allen's flowers in this author's short story "The Chrysanthemums."  
John {Steinbeck}