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in 1940.

John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

The book was first published in April 14, 1939. The book won the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize for fiction, & it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]."

Cover of "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, depicting a man standing and facing a rural landscape with mountains, beside him a seated woman and two children, all next to an old car.

A few new (to me) books picked up from a local auction, I think I ended up paying about $.75 each for these, a little cheaper then I normally do at this auction. I was mostly interested in the Sci-Fi and RPG books, but that isn't how the auctioneer sold them - and I ended up with a few books that I probably will not read, thou a couple of those do sound interesting, so you never really know do you! 🙂

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and The Towers of Silence by E. Howard Hunt
Skye Cameron by Phyllis A Whitney and When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer
Fight Fantasy Gamebook Rebel Planet by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone, and A life for the stars by James Blish
Planets For Sale by A.E. Van Vogt, Border Renegade by Dudley Dean

American author E. E. Smith was born in 1890.

E. E. "Doc" Smith is considered a major figure in the history of science fiction literature, particularly for his development of the space opera genre. His first major work, "The Skylark of Space" (1928), is often considered one of the first space operas. Perhaps his most famous work, the Lensman series, began with "Triplanetary" in 1934.

Books by E. E. Smith at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9515

Amazing Stories, Volume 3 Number 5, August 1928. Cover illustration by Frank R. Paul. From the contents page: Our Cover this month depicts a scene from the first installment in this issue of the story entitled THE SKYLARK OF SPACE by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby, in which the scientist, who has discovered a chemical substance for the liberation of intra-atomic energy, is making his initial tests, preparatory to his interplanetary flight by means of this liberated energy, which makes possible his interstellar space-flyer. Also in this issue is en:Armageddon 2419 A.D. The main character and narrator is Anthony (Buck) Rogers.
E. E: Smith c. 1960 A man in his old age wearing a suit and tie while sitting at a table.