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John Steinbeck refers to Thomas Hardy as his great predecessor. Steinbeck admired Hardy's ability to create rich, atmospheric settings and complex characters in his novels, which was a great influence on Steinbeck's own writing style.
If you refer to Pope Benedict XVI, his immediate predecessor was Pope John Paul II. He also had 264 other predecessors dating back to St. Peter.
Great American novelist.
Granpa great to the fourth power, or 4-great grandfather
An antecessor is a person who precedes another in a position or office. It can also refer to an ancestor or a predecessor in a family line.
John Steinbeck has touched millions of readers with The Grapes of Wrath, his epic, sprawling novel of rural life in the Great Depression. The distance between towns is important because during that time, one couldn't just drive over to the next town to secure items their town may be out of.
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The struggles of facing migrant workers.
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck is the author of The Grapes of Wrath. Published in 1939, the novel is a powerful exploration of the struggles faced by migrant workers during the Great Depression in the United States. Steinbeck's work remains a classic of American literature.
John Steinbeck ,Of Mice and Men
The Joads are fictional characters created by author John Steinbeck for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath," published in 1939. The book follows the Joad family as they struggle through the Great Depression in the 1930s.