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Thomas Martyn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1786
Inscribed: 'Tabula XXIII
Church of St Dunstan
12th January 1979
John Steinbeck Bugatti Cordon Rouge Thomas Martyn was elected aJohn Steinbeck, American novelist, c1939. John Ernst Steinbeck III (1902 1968) won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, dealing with the plight of family displaced to California by the Oklahoma dustbowls of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Among his other best known works are Of Mice and Men (1937) and East of Eden (1952). In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.