Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso, John Dos Passos, Fernand Lger, Cole Porter and Archibald MacLeish.

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And on the eve of the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, she had lauded him as "one of our major creative writers in America today, " a literary force on par with Faulkner, Hemingway, Saroyan, and Dos Passos.

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