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# Google Doodle Celebrates John Steinbeck

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by 

[Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/)


## Laura Stampler


Feb 27, 2014 1:18 PM UTC

by 

[Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/)


## Laura Stampler


Feb 27, 2014 1:18 PM UTC

Today’s Google Doodle is one big, interactive birthday card to Pulitzer Prize winning author John Steinbeck, who would have turned 112 today.

After clicking on the Doodle, users get transported to a click through animation that highlights his greatest works, starting with _The_ _Grapes of Wrath_.

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Clicking the image prompts illustrations based on the Pulitzer Prize and Nation Book Award winning novel to appear on the screen along with famous quotes.

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Other books featured included _Cannery Row:_


_Of Mice and Men:_

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_The Pearl:_

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and _Travels_ _with Charlie in Search of America:_


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Steinbeck died in 1968 at 66.

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