John Savage has joined James Franco's newest project In Dubious Battle. Franco will both star in and direct the film adaptation of the 1936 John Steinbeck novel, which recently cast Nat Wolff in a ...
James Franco has announced his latest project will be an adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel, In Dubious Battle. The Interview actor will be directing and starring in the production and has already ...
Digital Spy: The Deer Hunter's John Savage joins James Franco's In Dubious Battle
Digital Spy: James Franco to direct an adaptation of Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle
John Ernst Steinbeck (/ ˈstaɪnbɛk / STYNE-bek; – ) was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". [2] He has been called "a giant of American letters". [3][4] During his writing career, he authored 33 books ...
John Steinbeck, American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
Steinbeck in 1909 with his sister Mary, sitting on the red pony, Jill, at the Salinas Fairgrounds. John Steinbeck was born in the farming town of Salinas, California on 27 February 1902. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was not a terribly successful man; at one time or another he was the manager of a Sperry flour plant, the owner of a feed and grain store, the treasurer of Monterey County ...