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We are starting our semester by discussing another banned book.  When John Steinbeck (1902-1968) won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Academy stated “With your most distinctive works you have become a teacher of good will and charity, a defender of human values, which can well be said to correspond to the proper idea of the Nobel Prize” and called his novella Of Mice and Men a “little masterpiece”.  Steinbeck drew upon his experience as a bindlestiff when describing the lives of itinerant workers.  The work garnered both popular and literary praise: it was chosen by the Book of the Month club, adapted for stage, film, and radio, and appearing in high school curricula for decades.  Yet this novella, along with his epic novel Grapes of Wrath, now appear regularly on lists of the most banned books in English.

Please read the book so you can participate in our structured, facilitated, Zoom discussion. (Note: Please join the meeting at 3 pm if you would like some assistance using the features of Zoom. Otherwise, join us at 3:15 pm for the start of our discussion.)