John Steinbeck in 1939 Born

Published and anthologized stories[edit]

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  "Go See Eddie" (1940, republished in Fiction: Form & Experience, ed. William M. Jones, 1969 and in Three Early Stories, 2014)
  
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  "The Young Folks" (1940, republished in Three Early Stories, 2014)
  
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  "The Hang of It" (1941, republished in The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 1943)
  
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  "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" (1942, republished in Stories: The Fiction of the Forties, ed. Whit Burnett, 1949)
  
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  "Once a Week Won't Kill You" (1944, republished in Three Early Stories, 2014)
  
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  "A Boy in France" (1945, republished in Post Stories 1942–45, ed. Ben Hibbs, 1946 and July/August 2010 issue of Saturday Evening Post magazine)
  
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  "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" (1945, republished in The Armchair Esquire, ed. L. Rust Hills, 1959)
  
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  "Slight Rebellion off Madison" (1946, republished in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, ed. David Remnick, 2000)
  
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  "A Girl I Knew" (1948, republished in Best American Short Stories 1949, ed. Martha Foley, 1949)