My mother was difficult, to put it lightly. She was a drinker. And the only way my father could save me from her was to put me into boarding schools on the East Coast from the time I was in third grade. [5] Who, what, why: Why do children study Of Mice and Men?". BBC News. BBC. March 25, 2011. Archived from the original on January 7, 2015 . Retrieved December 6, 2014. His later work reflected his wide range of interests, including marine biology, politics, religion, history and mythology. One of his last published works was Travels with Charley, a travelogue of a road trip he took in 1960 to rediscover America.

Most Frequently banned books in the U.S." Archived from the original on March 23, 2008 . Retrieved July 22, 2008. , American Library Association. Retrieved 2007. The Forgotten Village—directed by Alexander Hammid and Herbert Kline, narrated by Burgess Meredith, music by Hanns Eisler Nobel Prize in Literature 1962". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on October 21, 2008 . Retrieved October 17, 2008. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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East of Eden—directed by Elia Kazan, featuring James Dean, Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet, and Raymond Massey La Perla ( The Pearl, Mexico)—directed by Emilio Fernández, featuring Pedro Armendáriz and María Elena Marqués Billy Post dies at 88; Big Sur's resident authority". Los Angeles Times. August 2, 2009 . Retrieved February 14, 2022. In the Nobel Prize presentation speech the next year, however, the Swedish Academy cited it most favorably: "Here he attained the same standard which he set in The Grapes of Wrath. Again he holds his position as an independent expounder of the truth with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American, be it good or bad." [1] Down to a Soundless Sea. (New York: Balantine Books, 2002) ISBN 9780345455765 (hardcover, 1st ed.) – short story collection

Penguin Press – Penguin Books USA". Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 . Retrieved December 6, 2016.

Thom was educated at a number of East Coast boarding schools. [2] As he told an interviewer in 2011: Of Mice and Men—directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., and Betty Field I liked it because of the way it shed light on Tibetan Buddhism. It seemed to me that the Tibetans were rather more noble and less self serving than other religions. I mean its hard to top the Catholics for hypocrisy, though many have tried. I just had assumed that maybe the Tibetans were above all that.