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Ross Simpson

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PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1939

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The book “The Grapes of Wrath” won the
National Book
Award
and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited
prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the
Nobel
Prize
in 1962.

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John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was born in
Salinas, California.
(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

Steinbeck has been called "a giant of American letters".

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John Belmont

Otis-Young

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Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967)

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                                                                     Ross Simpson

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Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is 88 years old today.

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