"I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich."

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About John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was an American novelist whose works portrayed social and economic hardship in twentieth-century America. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

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