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1979 Literary Arts Series: John Steinbeck Issue - The 15-cent John Steinbeck (1902-1968) stamp became available on February 27, 1979. A novelist and journalist, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He is best known for his novel The Grapes of Wrath, which tells the story of an Oklahoma family's escape from drought and eviction to fertile but hostile California.
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce [1882-1941] was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the -most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), Dubliners (1914), the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Zwischen zwei Welten: Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was born on 26 June was born in 1892 as the daughter of an American missionary and spent her childhood and youth in China. In the U.S., she studied, then worked in China until finally in 1934 returned to the United States moved. The contrast between the two cultures and the desire to bridge this contradiction, given her life and work. She wrote about 90 novels, was very involved for tolerance and understanding.
