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English actress (born 1996)
Florence Pugh is an English actress. Her accolades include a British Independent Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards.
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American writer and novelist (1902–1968)
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century, he was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
More on Wikipedia ↗Netflix’s East of Eden, starring Florence Pugh as Cathy Ames, gives John Steinbeck’s infamous ‘psychic monster’ a traumatic past, reigniting a decades-old debate over whether she was born evil or made monstrous.
Zoe Kazan’s East of Eden brings new depth to Cathy Ames while complicating Steinbeck’s ideas about trauma, free will, and moral responsibility.