Google Doodle Celebrates John Steinbeck

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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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