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Works by John Steinbeck in Chronological Order

Year

Books

Short Stories

Articles and Essays

Plays and Film Scripts

1929

Cup of Gold: A life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History. New York: R.M. McBride & Co.

1932

The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam

1933

To a God Unknown. New York: Ballou

1935

Tortilla Flat. New York: Covici-Friede

1936

In Dubious Battle. New York: Covici-Friede

“St. Katy the Virgin”

“Nothing So Monstrous”

“The Harvest Gypsies” (San Francisco News, October)

1937

Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede

The Red Pony. New York: Covici-Friede

Of Mice and Men: a Play in Three Acts. New York: Covici- Friede

1938

Their Blood Is Strong. San Francisco: Simon J. Lubin Society

The Long Valley. New York: Viking

“Starvation Under the Orange Trees” (Monterey Trader)

1939

The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking

1940

“John Steinbeck Replies”

1941

Sea of Cortez: a Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (with Edward F. Ricketts). New York: Viking

The Forgotten Village. New York: Viking

Forgotten Village (film)

1942

Bombs Away: the Story of a Bomber Team. New York: Viking

The Moon Is Down. New York: Viking

The Moon Is Down: a Play in Two Parts. New York: Dramatists Play Service

1943

“How Edith McGillcuddy met R L S”

1944

Lifeboat (film)

1945

Cannery Row. New York: Viking

A Medal for Benny (film)

1947

The Pearl. New York: Viking

The Wayward Bus. New York: Viking

“The First Watch”

“Vanderbuilt Clinic”

1948

A Russian Journal. New York: Viking

“Forward to Between Pacific Tides”

1950

Burning Bright: a Play in Story Form. New York: Village Press

1951

Burning Bright: a Play in Three Acts. New York: Dramatists Play Service

1952

East of Eden. New York: Viking

Viva Zapata! Rome: Edizioni Filmcritica

Viva Zapata! (film)

1954

Sweet Thursday. New York: Viking

1955

“Positano”

“Always Something to do In Salinas”

1956

Un Américain a New York et a Paris [Publisher]

1957

The Short Reign of Pippin IV: a Fabrication. New York: Viking

1958

Once There Was a War. New York: Viking

1961

The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: Viking

1962

Travels with CharleyIn Search of America. New York: Viking

Speech Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. New York: Viking

1966

America and Americans. New York: Viking

1969

Journal of a NovelThe East of Eden Letters. New York: Viking

1975

Steinbecka Life in Letters (ed. by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten). New York: Viking

1976

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble KnightsFrom the Winchester Manuscript and Other Sources (ed. by Chase Horton). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

1979

Steinbeck and CoviciThe Story of a Friendship (Thomas French, ed.). Middlebury, Vt.: P. S. Eriksson

1986

The Uncollected Stories of John Steinbeck (ed. by Kiyoshi Nakayama). Tokyo: Nan'un-do

1988

The Harvest Gypsies:On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath. San Francisco: Heydey Books

John Steinbeck on Writing / edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi. Muncie, Ind.: Steinbeck Research Institute

1989

Working DaysThe Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1938-1941 (ed. by Robert DeMott). New York: Viking

2002

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (ed. by Susan Shillinglaw & Jackson J. Benson). New York: Viking