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Which 1930 s American author was best known for novels reflecting the impact of the Great Depression upon the average American citizen?

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John Steinbeck
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Margaret Mitchell
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Orson Welles
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Ernest Hemingway
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Solution

The correct option is A John Steinbeck

He is best known for The Grapes of Wrath, a Depression-era (1930s) novel that follows the migratory experiences of the Joad family, who travel from the ravaged Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the “Promised Land” of California. He authored 27 novels, 16 with themes related to life during the Great Depression. Margaret Mitchell's gone with the wind, a romantic saga of the Civil War south, became one of the decades best-sellers, reflecting American's desire for escapism during the era.

Kurt Vonnegut was a novelist of the post-world-war-II era most famous for slaughterhouse five. Actor and producer Orson Welles found fame in the 1930's as the president of The Mercury Theater and with the famous October 30, 1938 radio production of H.G Well's War of the Worlds, one of the most widespread episodes of mass hysteria of all time. Hemingway did write during the 1930's, his novels did not deal with ordinary experiences of Americans during the Great Depression.


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