{"id":11279,"date":"2013-02-06T07:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=11279"},"modified":"2013-02-06T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:15:31","slug":"of-mice-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11279","title":{"rendered":"Of Mice and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On February 6, 1937, John Steinbeck&#8217;s <em>Of Mice and Men<\/em> was published<\/strong>, a book that he also made into a play. I vividly remember seeing a production of the play at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guthrietheater.org\/\" title=\"Guthrie Theater\" target=\"_blank\">Guthrie Theatre<\/a> in Minneapolis as a school trip. It was a fantastic experience, which is why I&#8217;m glad UWW also provides productions for school groups.<\/p>\n<p>Steinbeck wrote other works, and he received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/awards\/1940\" title=\"Pulitzer Prize\" target=\"_blank\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a> for <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>. That novel became a classic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032551\/\" title=\"summary of The Grapes of Wrath film at IMDb\" target=\"_blank\">film<\/a> that won a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/awards\/academyawards\/legacy\/ceremony\/13th-winners.html\" title=\"The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners\" target=\"_blank\">Academy Awards<\/a> (although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000020\/bio\" title=\"Henry Fonda bio at IMDb\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Fonda<\/a> did not win the Best Actor Oscar).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never read these works, I highly recommend them (but not as lighthearted reading). <strong>Andersen Library has both titles<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/omamdvd.jpg\" alt=\"DVD case Of Mice and Men\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=YUhrILM9DOUC&#038;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"Summary at Google Books of \"Of Mice and Men\"\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Of Mice and Men<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (print: 3rd-floor Main Collection, PS3537.T3234 O2 1993; video: 2nd-floor Feature Film DVDs, alphabetical by title; sound recording of an opera based on the tale: 2nd-floor Browsing Academic CDs,  M1500.F67 O36 2003), and <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bhJgd3hGdxQC&#038;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"Summary at Google Books of The Grapes of Wrath\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Grapes of Wrath<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (print: 2nd-floor Great Minds Collection, PS3537.T3234 G8 2006; video: 2nd-floor Feature Film DVDs, alphabetical by title)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;db=lfh&#038;AN=103331CSLF15830140000493&#038;login.asp&#038;site=ehost-live\">Literary Reference Center<\/a> database can reveal more about Steinbeck and his works.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" title=\"Ask a librarian email or chat\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> if you&#8217;d appreciate assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6, 1937, John Steinbeck&#8217;s Of Mice and Men was published, a book that he also made into a play. I vividly remember seeing a production of the play at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis as a school trip. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[41248,875,324,178,119,1630,1639,263,41249,41246,41247,658],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-academy-awards","tag-anniversaries","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-databases","tag-films","tag-literature","tag-novels","tag-oscars","tag-social-commentary","tag-steinbeck","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions\/11299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}